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The Disappearance of B-52F Stratofortress 70173
  • Home
  • About
    • The Disappearance
    • The Missing Aircrew
    • Training Realism
    • Our Crew
    • Our Mission
    • Newsroom
  • Other Information
    • Strategic Air Command
    • B-52 Specifics
    • The Search
    • The Investigation
    • Aircraft Debris
    • Interesting Facts
    • Imagery
  • Contact Us

Search and Recovery (SAR) Ops

Downed in an unknown location

Despite an exhaustive sea, air and land search conducted by the US Coast Guard (sea and air), US Navy (air only), US Air Force and the Civil Air Patrol, no trace of the missing bomber or aircrew could be located. Not only did the searchers scour the entire Gulf of Mexico and the surrounding US landmass, they also conducted high-altitude surveillance overflights of Cuba, Central and South America and the Caribbean looking at every runway capable of landing a B-52.


When no evidence of a crash could be located, senior US Air Force officials formally terminated all search efforts and abandoned the investigation of the disappearance on 8 March 1968.

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