An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise kills 27 people in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on January 14, 1969. A rocket accidentally detonated, destroying 15 planes and injuring more than 300 people.
The Enterprise was the first-ever nuclear-powered aircraft carrier when it was launched in 1960. It has eight nuclear reactors, six more than all subsequent nuclear carriers. The massive ship is over 1,100 feet long and carries 4,600 crew members.
At 8:19 a.m. on January 14, a MK-32 Zuni rocket that was loaded on an F-4 Phantom jet overheated due to the exhaust from another vehicle. The rocket blew up, setting off a chain reaction of explosions. Fires broke out across the deck of the ship, and when jet fuel flowed into the carrier’s interior, other fires were sparked. Many of the Enterprise’s fire-protection features failed to work properly, but the crew worked heroically and tirelessly to extinguish the fire.
In all, 27 sailors lost their lives and another 314 were seriously injured. Although 15 aircraft (out of the 32 stationed on the Enterprise at the time) were destroyed by the explosions and fire, the Enterprise itself was never threatened.
The USS Enterprise was repaired over several months at Pearl Harbor and returned to action later in the year.
The cost to repair the damage and replace 15 destroyed aircraft was over $126 million (equivalent to $957 million in 2022).
Source: history.com
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15 January 2022 at 03:08
Pretty sure it was on station in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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15 January 2022 at 13:12
I was on the uss Roosevelt, the ‘Rosie” , I was the electrician assigned to the repair party in the hanger where the ready aircraft were located, they were the ones with nukes always on them. When the alarm goes off you have to make haste to get to this repair party as they shut the hanger doors and marines guard the doors. no one allowed in the space. Thats how we did it back in the 60’s……at one time the fire was below us, we all could feel the heat, sweat bullets on that one, another time I remeber the flight deck had planes on fire,, it was dark and chaiotic, I had to haul fire extingusher bottles from whereever i could find them to the flight deck….I was a black shoe then, later I bacame a brown shoe, flight simulator tech. My best friend who was with me on that carrier, he was on the Oriskany, when it had its fire. He has first person tales about that one, but now he is in Santa Roasa medical, fighting for his life with covid….
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