Whenever I have a bad day, Ill just remember Air Force Captain Bruce Kulka. In March of 1958, Capt. Kulka was responding to a fault light in his aircrafts bomb bay, carrying an atomic Mark 6 bomb from Georgia to the U.K. Because he could not see over the bomb to investigate, he tried to find a way to gain some height. While doing this, he accidentally grabbed the Emergency Release causing the Mark 6 bomb to fall onto the release doors, which dropped open due to the bombs weight. He watched as the bomb fell 15,000 feet to the South Carolina landscape below. Although the bomb did not contain the removable core of fissionable uranium and plutonium, it did contain 7,600 pounds of conventional explosives. The resulting explosion created a mushroom cloud and crater estimated to be 75 feet wide and 25–35 feet deep. Fortunately for him, there was enough clearance that nobody was seriously injured or killed. .....Still, that must have been the scariest 30 seconds, ever.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:02:50 +0000
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