Английская Википедия:1965 Philippine Sea A-4 incident
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The 1965 Philippine Sea A-4 crash was a Broken Arrow incident in which a United States Navy Douglas A-4E Skyhawk attack aircraft carrying a nuclear weapon fell into the sea off Japan from the aircraft carrier Шаблон:USS.[1][2] The aircraft, pilot and weapon were never recovered.[3]
The accident
On 5 December 1965, 31 days after TiconderogaШаблон:'s departure from U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay in the Philippines,[1] the attack jet was pushed backwards over the side, off the #2 elevator during a training exercise while being rolled from the number 2 hangar bay to the number 2 elevator.[4] The pilot, Lieutenant (junior grade) Douglas M. Webster; the aircraft, Douglas A-4E BuNo 151022 of VA-56; and the B43 nuclear bomb were never recovered[5] from the Шаблон:Convert depth.Шаблон:Citation needed The accident was said to occur Шаблон:Convert from Kikai Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.[6]
Ticonderoga had aboard Carrier Air Wing Five during this cruise, with two squadrons of Skyhawks. The lost aircraft was part of Attack Squadron 56 (VA-56); VA-144 was the other.[7]
Number of weapons
Though most sources state that a single weapon was involved, a document from Los Alamos National Lab indicates that two weapons were involved.[8]
Revelation
It was not until 1989 that the United States Department of Defense revealed the proximity of the lost one-megaton H-bomb to Japanese territory.[9] The revelation inspired a diplomatic inquiry from Japan requesting details.[10]
See also
References
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