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Accident | |
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Date | 13-14 February 1950 |
Summary | Engine failure |
Site | Mount Kologet, British Columbia, Canada 56°1′27.61″N 128°37′11.91″W / 56.0243361°N 128.6199750°W |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Convair B-36B |
Operator | United States Air Force |
Registration | 44-92075 |
Flight origin | Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, Alaska, United States |
Destination | Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas |
Occupants | 17 |
Passengers | 1 |
Crew | 16 |
Fatalities | 5 |
Survivors | 12 |
Sometime after midnight on 14 February 1950, a Convair B-36B, United States Air Force Serial Number 44-92075 assigned to the US 7th Bombardment Wing, Heavy at Carswell Air Force Base in Texas, crashed in northwestern British Columbia on Mount Kologet after jettisoning a Mark 4 nuclear bomb.[1] This was the first such nuclear weapon loss in history.[2] The B-36B had been en route from Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, Alaska, to Carswell AFB, more than 3,000 miles southeast, on a mission that included a simulated nuclear attack on San Francisco.[2]
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