1956 B-47 disappearance
The 1956 B-47 disappearance occurred on 10 March 1956 over the Mediterranean Sea. Flight. A Boeing B-47 Stratojet, call-sign Inkspot 59,(306th Bombardment Wing/369th Bomb Squadron) took off from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, in the United States for a non-stop flight to Ben Guerir Air Base, Morocco, and completed the first of two planned aerial refuelings without incident. After descending through solid cloud cover 90 miles southwest of Oran,to begin the second refueling at , B-47E serial number "52-0534", ceasing communication with the KC-97 tanker aircraft. The unarmed aircraft was transporting two different capsules  of nuclear weapons material in carrying cases; a nuclear detonation was not possible. Aftermath. A French news agency reported that the plane had exploded in the air southeast of Saïdia, in French Morocco in the same general location of its last known position. After an exhaustive search, no remains of the device could be located, and the exact place of its disappearance was never established. The crew was declared dead: