The 1948 Lake Mead Boeing B-29 crash occurred 21 July 1948 when a Boeing B-29-100-BW Superfortress, modified into an F-13 reconnaissance platform and performing atmospheric …

While flying at low height at a speed of 140 mph, the aircraft struck a 160-foot high telecommunications tower and crashed in a field, bursting into flames. The wreckage was …

2015年11月19日 · B-29 - crashed at Yokota Air Base Japan during take off when the engine quit. The plane broke into two pieces, caught fire, and 30 of its load of 38 bombs exploded.

2021年12月28日 · On February 18, 1943, the second of Boeing's top-secret B-29 prototype Superfortress bombers catches fire minutes after takeoff from Boeing Field. After a harrowing, …

Northeast of San Francisco, California, on 5 August 1950, a United States Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber carrying a Mark 4 nuclear bomb crashed shortly after takeoff from …

The 1948 Waycross B-29 crash occurred on 6 October 1948 [1] when an engine fire contributed to the crash of a Boeing B-29-100-BW Superfortress bomber in Waycross, Georgia. The plane …

B-29 44-69887 pilot Gray crashed May 7, 1945 B-29 44-69871 pilot Schofield crashed Apr 16, 1945 B-29-70-BW B-29A 44-69926 pilot Haynes crashed May 14, 1945 B-29 44-69957 …

An Army B-29 bomber crashed into the wooded slopes of Clingman’s Dome, killing all 12 members of the crew. Fire broke out in¬stantly from the impact and when rescue par¬ties …

Nov. 16 (UP). A U.S. air force Superfortress with 20 men aboard disappeared over the Atlantic near Bermuda today after radioing that its fuel was running out and it was ditching in the sea. …

But the Lake Mead crash was the beginning of a run of bad luck for the program, and less than two months later, in early September, a malfunctioning hydraulic switch on B-29 850 led to an …