Lost atomic bomb from a B-47

Cking · **Posted:** Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:13 pm

The good old BBC put this item up on the web recently

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8107908.stm

The radio interview might be available on the BBC Iplayer later.

Rgds Cking

P51Mstg · **Joined:** Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:36 am **Posts:** 1202

I read something else on that one recently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tybee_Bomb

I know this, it didn't go away, its still there somewhere

Mark H

spartakle · **Posted:** Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:28 pm

I seem to recall a news story that a B-36 of the USAF dropped an atomic bomb off the coast of British Columbia sometime in the 1950s or 1960s. In that case the bomb exploded but was kept secret for years. Maybe someone knows more about that one?

Blake

JDK · **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:07 am

spartakle wrote:

I seem to recall a news story that a B-36 of the USAF dropped an atomic bomb off the coast of British Columbia sometime in the 1950s or 1960s. In that case the bomb exploded but was kept secret for years. Maybe someone knows more about that one?

Think that's the first on this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... oken_Arrow

Here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Briti ... B-36_crash

Cking · **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:52 am

Hear's the link to Iplayer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... ken_Arrow/

Rgds Cking

bobbrunn · **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:29 pm

I live 20 miles from Tybee. the Col did what he had to do to prevent a catastrophe at the time. The field he landed at, Hunter Air Force base here in Savannah, was having the runway extended at the time and was not even officially open. He declared an emergency and got the aircraft in even with construction on the runway.

There have been several attempts here to find the bomb over the years. As a local I can say that no one has been overly worried about it until people began to move here from other places and the " urban legend" part of the story developed. I seriously doubt that a terrorist group has found the bomb or even could as the BBC report says. In most areas where the bomb is thought to be off of Ossabaw Sound it is so murky underwater that you could not see your hand in front of your face. That is why they have never had any luck finding it to this day.

Must have been a slow day at the BBC.

Cking · **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 4:46 pm

I listened to the program today. What a good story!! I tend to agree with the pilot, that he should be remembered for landing a crippled B-47 and saved his crew than jettisoning a un armed nuke.
I also like the urban legend aspect!
A slow day at the BBC? Maybe but I’d rather hear a story like this than another reality TV/Radio show! :-)

bobbrunn, have you got a Tybee bomb squad T shirt?

Rgds Cking

bobbrunn · **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:43 pm

Cking wrote:

I listened to the program today. What a good story!! I tend to agree with the pilot, that he should be remembered for landing a crippled B-47 and saved his crew than jettisoning a un armed nuke.
I also like the urban legend aspect!
A slow day at the BBC? Maybe but I’d rather hear a story like this than another reality TV/Radio show! :-)

bobbrunn, have you got a Tybee bomb squad T shirt?

Rgds Cking

No shirt but I see plenty of them around. Let me know if you are looking for one. I can probably track one down.

gary1954 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:30 pm

They need to quit mucking around Tybee and Savannah, leave it alone, ban building anything anywhere near it.

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