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the site on Kologet Moun-
tain north of Cranberry
Junction two weekends
ago and succeeded in de-
molishing much of the old
explosives littering the
crash site. ,
Bul local Rangers Mas-
‘ ter Corporal Pierre Cote
said the team found still
more while they were up
there, meaning they'll be
returning again next sum-
mer,

“We will definitely be
going back,” Cote said.
“The mission will be a go
for next year.”

The B-36 crashed in the
Kispiox Mountains on Feb. j
13, 1950 after it lost en- —
gine power in a fierce |
storm and jettisoned its
unarmed atomic bomb
aver Hecate Strait. Most of
the crew bailed out over
Princess Royal Island but
the plane flew 360 kilo-
metres further north before
crashing.

Most of the explosives
on the site were left be-
hind in 1954 when U.S.
Atmy engineers tried to
demolish the wreckage.

Cote said the team de-
strayed a 100-pound canis-
ter of compound B exple-
sive, plus more loose ex-
plosive compound B and
20-millimetre anti-aircraft
ammunition.

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The group did not find—
any. of the three dazen de-
tonators the plane carried
to detonate its Mark IV A-
bomb. It’s believed most
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barred access to some
wreckage.

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“There’s no way
the plane got to where
it got without some-
one piloting it there.”

He said the location of
the crash - in a broad al-
pine bowl surrounded by
‘high ridges — makes it ap-
pear the plane was deli-
berately landed where it
ended up.

“There’s no way the
plane got to where it got
without someone piloting
it there,” he said.

He said the group was
told a body was removed
from the wreckage in
1954, adding fuel to the
idea that the plane was
flown there after the ma-
jority of the crew baited
out.

Official U.S. military
reports claimed it was put
on autopilot and ended up
on Vancouver Island.

The B-36 and its fost
nuke were ‘the first-ever
“Broken Arrow” incident -
the U.S. military code
word for an accident invol-
ving nuclear weapons.

Cote cautions the site is
still considered hazardous.

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