EPISODE · Sep 10, 2016 · 10 MIN
The Night They Almost Nuked Big Savage Mountain.
from Stories of Appalachia · host Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins
In January, 1964, a crippled B-52 was on its way home from Massachusetts to an airbase in Georgia, when it ran into a heavy snowstorm. The plane’s vertical stabilizer (the tail) was ripped off, and it went into a spin, crashing on Big Savage Mountain in Western Maryland. Two of the five crewmen survived the […]
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