On the 5th February 1958 an incident occurred in the skies over Georgia in the USA named the ‘Tybee Island Mid-Air Collision’ when two aircraft - an F-86 Fighter jet on a night practice exercise collided with a B-47 bomber. The bomber was carrying a large, 3,400kg (7,600 pound) Mark 15 nuclear bomb measuring 12 feet (3.7m) in length which was jettisoned…
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