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>>24664205
On Valintines day 1950 a US B36 Peacemaker aircraft lost power in three of its six engines due to carburetor icing. The bomber was running the airforces first live test run with a mark 4 atomic weapon, including its plutonium core. The bomber was following the BC coast line from its base in Alaska when it encountered the issues, and the crew attempted to drop the unarmed weapon in the sea to save the aircraft. With the bomb bay frozen nothing operated the crew jumped out over Princess Royal Island, where 12 of the 15 crew were rescued. The massive plane was set to self destruct over the ocean, but instead did a U turn in land and crashed nearly intact on Mt Koliget near Terrace BC, where it was discovered in 1955. The plane was destroyed by a US special forces team the following year, with communities nearby reporting a massive explosion and blue flash seen as far away as Kispiox village. Pic related is a detonator recovered from the crash site for the mark 4.