1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision

The Tybee Island mid-air collision was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb in the waters of Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, United States. During a night practice exercise, an F-86 fighter plane collided with the B-47 bomber carrying the large weapon. The bomb was jettisoned to help prevent a crash and explosion. After several unsuccessful searches, the weapon was declared lost in Wassaw Sound off the shores of Tybee Island. Read by S Whistler. Recorded April 25, 2012; the article may have changed since. The article as it stood when recorded: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=530570184 Article today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Tybee_Island_mid-air_collision Original recording: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:En-1958_Tybee_Island_mid-air_collision-article.oga License: CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0). This episode is a format-shifted (MP3) copy redistributed under the same license. Chapter images come from the recorded article via Wikimedia Commons; each chapter links its file page for credits. This show is an independent community project, not affiliated with or endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation.