Database and records searchable by surname. The LLNL team was exploring three different plane crashes that had occurred on the mountain, but it was the remnants from a “broken arrow” – an accident involving nuclear weapons – that caught their attention. These models also will play an important role in the W80-4 Life Extension Program (LEP), one of two stockpile modernization programs led by LLNL. A Tactical Air Command jet crashed and exploded on a mountainside nuclear storage facility at top-secret Manzano Base late Wednesday night killing all 20 men on board. I was about 100 yards north of the Navy hanger near the departure end of R8 so I didn't have the full view of the takeoff run. To their surprise, they found several small fragments of HE from the Mk4 that were visible among the wreckage of the historic crash site. The LLNL team was exploring three different plane crashes that had occurred on the mountain, but it was the remnants from a “broken arrow” – an accident involving nuclear weapons – that caught their attention. A Tactical Air Command jet crashed and exploded on a mountainside nuclear storage facility at top-secret Manzano Base late Wednesday night killing all 20 men on board. "It was strange -- there was no radio call at all." Navy F8 & A4 Midair Collision Chiriaco Summit, CA October 7, 1966 : Navy F8U-1 Santa Rosa Mountains Unknown date and bureau number : Curtis C-46D Commando Kingman Army Airfield January 5, 1946: B-24J Liberator Humphreys Peak in San Francisco Peaks, Flagstaff [1] The center of the range lies due east of the town of Belen. On the wall there was a map of the mountain with X's marking all of the plane crashes. A Tactical Air Command jet crashed and exploded on a mountainside nuclear storage facility at top-secret Manzano Base late Wednesday night killing all 20 men on board. I was working and come in contact regularly with a Quatelbaum family here in Oklahoma and I mentioned that night and that one of the victims last name was the same as theirs and do you happen to know of it? ... One of the security guys told me they were patrolling on the east side of the mountain when the plane hit. The crash, which scattered wreckage across 10 acres of the rugged mountain terrain, woke residents in Four Hills. When asked if the plane crashed in an area hear where fissionable material was stored, ORRELL said, "I can't comment on that." The airplane _ a twin turboprop Cessna 421C _ crashed on the east side of the Manzanos at an elevation of about 9,000 feet, said Roland Herwig, an FAA spokesman in Oklahoma City. He hadn't even rotated yet but should have been off with enough altitude to be fully visible above the hanger way before then. Home; Map of crashes; List by state; About; New Mexico fatal crashes (712) View all crashes on a map. Coordinates: 34°47′N 106°24′W / 34.79°N 106.40°W / 34.79; -106.40, https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:0::NO::P3_FID:918245, http://www.summitpost.org/manzano-mountains/347496, "Proterozoic magmatism and regional contact metamorphism in the Sandia-Manzano Mountains, New Mexico, USA", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manzano_Mountains&oldid=959416877, Landforms of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2017, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 28 May 2020, at 17:31. They told me his wife said she was awakened by "something scratching" at her window, at about 0148 hrs. Manzano Base, NM Tactical Air Command Jet Crashes, Sep 1977 Submitted by Stu Beitler TEAMS PROBE MOUNTAINSIDE PLANE CRASH. I never realized the others so touched by this event or remember it like I have and knowing you experience the things you expressed is very meaningful to me. [3], The Manzano Mountains are the southern part of a larger geologic unit known as the Sandia–Manzano Mountains, which are an east-tilted fault-block range forming part of the eastern edge of the Albuquerque Basin in the Rio Grande rift. It crashed into Sandia Peak, a few miles north of Manzano. Within the Manzano Mountains is the Manzano Mountains Wilderness comprised of nearly 37,000 acres and 64 miles of trails, including the 22-mile long Crest Trail. "There was no indication that the pilot was having trouble," Capt. The crew headed out again at first light Thursday. “I couldn’t believe that HE was sitting there on that mountain for 70 years,” Hart said. Wondering if you know me?? As part of the W80-4 LEP, LLNL will be replacing the warhead’s aged HE. Unfamiliar flight line sounds always caught my attention to check out new aircraft not from the base. No structural failure occurred and there was no failure of the electrical system. But the reason for the crash won't really be known until an investigation team, due at Manzano this morning, finishes sifting through the debris. Other notable peaks include flat-topped Bosque Peak (9,610 ft, 2,929 m), near the center of the range, and the twin pyramids of Mosca Peak (9,509 ft, 2,898 m) and Guadalupe Peak (9,450 ft, 2,880 m). Crash of a Boeing EC-135K Stratotanker near Kirtland AFB: 20 killed. but it didn't seem to. I kind of thought it was the crew's spirits rousing and like another post said, I talked to them. 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