1963 Elephant Mountain B-52 Crash Site

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On January 24, 1963, a United States Air Force Boeing B-52C Stratofortress (53‑0406) with nine crew members on board lost its vertical stabilizer due to buffeting stresses during turbulence at low altitude and crashed on Elephant Mountain in Piscataquis County, Maine, six miles (9.7 km) from Greenville. The pilot and the navigator survived the accident.

The aircraft was out of Westover Air Force Base near Springfield, Massachusetts, and was on a Terrain Avoidance Flight training mission. These missions practiced techniques used to penetrate Soviet Advanced Capability Radar (ACR) systems undetected. Such training missions were common in the Cold War Era.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Elephant_Mountain_B-52_crash

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Coordinates: 45°31'40"N 69°26'5"W

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