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Safety history
November 30, 1956Accident
Soon after a night takeoff from Castle AFB, while climbing to a height of 500 feet, the aircraft adopted a 5° nose down attitude. The crew elected to correct this but the aircraft went into a descent and struck the ground 4 miles north of the airbase and exploded on impact, killing all 10 crew members. Crew: Cpt John A. Goddard, aircraft commander, Cpt Richard M. Wikstrom, pilot, Cpt Leland Fulton Burch, navigator, Maj Robert Louis Sherman, ECM operator Cpt Jack Eugene Welch, radar-bombardier, M
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