Episode 76 - Vanished Over Pittsburgh: The Lost B-25 Ghost Bomber Mystery
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The episode discusses the mysterious ditching of a B-25 bomber in the Monongahela River during a Cold War training mission.
In 1956, a U.S. Air Force B-25 Mitchell bomber was flying a routine Cold War training mission when everything started to go wrong over western Pennsylvania. Low on fuel and running out of options, the crew made a desperate decision to put the aircraft down in the Monongahela River near Pittsburgh. What followed was a dramatic emergency ditching that was witnessed by many—and initially thought to be a survivable crash. But then something unexpected happened. The aircraft that everyone saw go i...
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