1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision, Aircraft incident in United States of America
The 1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision involved a B-47 bomber and an F-86 fighter jet.
During the incident, a nuclear bomb was lost near Tybee Island, Georgia, and remains unrecovered.
The event has spurred legends and interest surrounding the missing nuclear weapon.
Tybee Island is now a popular tourist destination, but the bomb's exact location is still unknown.
It is one of the few instances where a live nuclear bomb has been jettisoned during peacetime.
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