1956 USAF Boeing B-47 disappearance

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The 1956 B-47 disappearance was a Cold War aviation incident in which a United States Air Force Boeing B-47 Stratojet vanished over the Mediterranean Sea on 10 March 1956 while en route from MacDill Air Force Base in Florida to Ben Guerir Air Base in Morocco. The aircraft, carrying three crew members, failed to make contact with a KC-97 tanker during a scheduled aerial refuelling. No wreckage or remains were recovered, and the crew were later declared dead. At the time of the disappearance, the bomber was transporting two sealed capsules containing nuclear pits, but was not carrying any complete nuclear weapons, making a nuclear detonation impossible. The accident is listed in U.S. Department of Defense summaries as a “Broken Arrow”.

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