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Debris From 1963 B-52 Crash Found in Maine Woods

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This week a team of forest rangers will hike up Elephant Mountain near Greenville to recover an ejection seat missing since the crash of a B-52 bomber that killed seven airmen nearly 50 years ago. The ejection seat has been located on an overgrown logging road southwest of the infamous crash site. (www.mpbn.net) Más...

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rick737
richard weiss 1
They that jet was built, the seat might be returned to service.
preacher1
preacher1 1
You probably right!lol. I never was around them that much but I didn't even know that the BUFF had ejection seats. In my USAF days as a flight medic, I was with the NET in 68 when that one went down up in Greenland. FE threw a jacket over the heater in back and started a fire. Pilot just kept passing over the field as the crew bailed. They said on the last run that he pointed it off to the side and him and his right seat guy went out the back door too. Way they were talking he could have landed it, but as the saying goes, we weren't there.I was just in on the cleanup crew as he had 4 weapons on board. They were all recovered intact but we had to skim off 6" of snow off about 500 acres off that dry lake bed, put it in 55 gallon drums and had a whole fleet of C141 starlifters in there on about 30 minute headways, loading for Hanford.
unclebigpete
Peter Douglas 1
Sorry, but this doesn't gel with the story at www.mpbn.net - perhaps you are referring to a different BUFF crash?

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