BROKEN ARROW IN CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL VALLEY

摘要

Nothing happened, no matter how hard he pulled on the release. The maintenance crews, preflight crew and Oarlock himself had failed to check for and remove one of the three turret safety pins. Furious communication among the crew resulted in a second order: Come forward now!Oarlock rotated back his seat, ditched his bulky gear, scrambled through several hatches and began his panicky crawl along the tight starboard bomb bay catwalk. Complying with the two-man rule, the radar navigator, Captain William Hart, stationed himself at the forward hatch to monitor Oarlock's difficult passage above the cargo: two thermonuclear bombs. Thus ensued Strategic Air Command's second "Broken Arrow" incident of 1961, this time over the picturesque Sutter Buttes of California's Central Valley.