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Sep 29th, 2021 | 20:03

1963 Elephant Mountain B-52 crash near Greenville, Maine

On 24 January 1963 a United States Air Force Boeing B-52C Stratofortress with nine crew members on board lost its vertical stabilizer during turbulence at low altitude and crashed on Elephant Mountain in Piscataquis County, Maine. There were 2 survivors and 7 fatalities.