Bomber Down: Part One

On February 28, 1968, a B-52 bomber carrying eight members of the U.S. Air Force crashes while on a training flight near Matagorda Island, Texas. There is no distress call, and no one ejects from the eight-engine, jet-powered bomber before it disappears beneath the waves of the Gulf of Mexico.

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