Date: 13-JUL-1950
Time: 14:54 EST
Type: Boeing B-50D-110-BO Superfortress
Owner/operator: 342th BSqn /97th BGp USAF
Registration: 49-0267
MSN: 16043
Fatalities: Fatalities: 16 / Occupants: 16
Other fatalities: 0
Aircraft damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: 4.5miles NNE of Mason, city in Warren County, Ohio. - USA
Phase: En route training mission
Nature: Military
Departure airport: Biggs AFB, Texas
Destination airport: Biggs AFB, Texas
Narrative:
The B-50D (command pilot John S. Adams, Jr.) and crew were on a training mission The aircraft nosedived into the ground from 7000 feet and was completely destroyed by the impact and detonation of the high explosive component of the nuclear weapon bomb casing (not fitted with a fuel capsule) it carried, causing an explosion that was heard 25 miles away and leaving a crater of 200x25 feet. No distress signals had been received from the aircraft and all four officers and twelve crewmen aboard were killed in the crash, none bailed out.
Courtesy Contributor: Family Searcher (46596952)
Time: 14:54 EST
Type: Boeing B-50D-110-BO Superfortress
Owner/operator: 342th BSqn /97th BGp USAF
Registration: 49-0267
MSN: 16043
Fatalities: Fatalities: 16 / Occupants: 16
Other fatalities: 0
Aircraft damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: 4.5miles NNE of Mason, city in Warren County, Ohio. - USA
Phase: En route training mission
Nature: Military
Departure airport: Biggs AFB, Texas
Destination airport: Biggs AFB, Texas
Narrative:
The B-50D (command pilot John S. Adams, Jr.) and crew were on a training mission The aircraft nosedived into the ground from 7000 feet and was completely destroyed by the impact and detonation of the high explosive component of the nuclear weapon bomb casing (not fitted with a fuel capsule) it carried, causing an explosion that was heard 25 miles away and leaving a crater of 200x25 feet. No distress signals had been received from the aircraft and all four officers and twelve crewmen aboard were killed in the crash, none bailed out.
Courtesy Contributor: Family Searcher (46596952)
Date: 13-JUL-1950
Time: 14:54 EST
Type: Boeing B-50D-110-BO Superfortress
Owner/operator: 342th BSqn /97th BGp USAF
Registration: 49-0267
MSN: 16043
Fatalities: Fatalities: 16 / Occupants: 16
Other fatalities: 0
Aircraft damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: 4.5miles NNE of Mason, city in Warren County, Ohio. - USA
Phase: En route training mission
Nature: Military
Departure airport: Biggs AFB, Texas
Destination airport: Biggs AFB, Texas
Narrative:
The B-50D (command pilot John S. Adams, Jr.) and crew were on a training mission The aircraft nosedived into the ground from 7000 feet and was completely destroyed by the impact and detonation of the high explosive component of the nuclear weapon bomb casing (not fitted with a fuel capsule) it carried, causing an explosion that was heard 25 miles away and leaving a crater of 200x25 feet. No distress signals had been received from the aircraft and all four officers and twelve crewmen aboard were killed in the crash, none bailed out.
Courtesy Contributor: Family Searcher (46596952)
Time: 14:54 EST
Type: Boeing B-50D-110-BO Superfortress
Owner/operator: 342th BSqn /97th BGp USAF
Registration: 49-0267
MSN: 16043
Fatalities: Fatalities: 16 / Occupants: 16
Other fatalities: 0
Aircraft damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: 4.5miles NNE of Mason, city in Warren County, Ohio. - USA
Phase: En route training mission
Nature: Military
Departure airport: Biggs AFB, Texas
Destination airport: Biggs AFB, Texas
Narrative:
The B-50D (command pilot John S. Adams, Jr.) and crew were on a training mission The aircraft nosedived into the ground from 7000 feet and was completely destroyed by the impact and detonation of the high explosive component of the nuclear weapon bomb casing (not fitted with a fuel capsule) it carried, causing an explosion that was heard 25 miles away and leaving a crater of 200x25 feet. No distress signals had been received from the aircraft and all four officers and twelve crewmen aboard were killed in the crash, none bailed out.
Courtesy Contributor: Family Searcher (46596952)
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