Non-combat military accidents

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 112. Chapters: Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets, Ramstein airshow disaster, Sknyliv airshow disaster, Nuclear and radiation accidents, USS Iowa turret explosion, Port Chicago disaster, Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision, List of military nuclear accidents, USS Forrestal, Soviet submarine K-129, 1950 USS Missouri grounding incident, Melbourne-Voyager collision, 1994 Fairchild Air Force Base B-52 crash, Melbourne-Evans collision, 1967 USS Forrestal fire, 2009 USS Port Royal grounding, West Loch Disaster, Russian submarine K-152 Nerpa, United States military nuclear incident terminology, 1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash, USS George Washington, Dugway sheep incident, Cavalese cable car disaster, Nedelin catastrophe, 1957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash, USS Princeton, Lagos Armoury Explosion, 2008 Guam B-52 crash, USS Newport News, Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident, 1960 Munich Convair 340 crash, MS Vereshchagino, SS Quinault Victory, 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash, Green Ramp disaster, 2005 Nias Island WS-61 Sea King crash, Siberia Airlines Flight 1812, Andersen Air Force Base B-2 accident, Soviet submarine K-431, List of sunken nuclear submarines, 2009 Iranian Air Force mid-air collision, 1987 Ramada Inn Corsair crash, Táchira helicopter crash, USS Princeton Disaster of 1844, List of Russian military accidents, 1997 Israeli helicopter disaster, 1960 Rio de Janeiro air crash, Design basis accident, Kurkse tragedy, 2010 Israeli helicopter disaster in Romania, 1959 Kadena Air Base F-100 crash, 1982 Harpoon Missile Misfire Incident, 1946 Antarctica PBM Mariner crash. Excerpt: The USS Iowa turret explosion occurred in the Number Two 16-inch gun turret of the United States Navy battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) on April 19, 1989. The explosion in the center gun room killed 47 of the turret's crewmen and severely damaged the gun turret itself. The first investigation into the explosion, conducted by the US Navy, concluded that one of the gun turret crew members, Clayton Hartwig, who died in the explosion, had deliberately caused it. During the investigation, numerous leaks to the media, later attributed to Navy officers and investigators, implied that Hartwig and another sailor, Kendall Truitt, had engaged in a homosexual relationship and that Hartwig had caused the explosion after their relationship had soured. In its report, however, the Navy concluded that the evidence did not show that Hartwig was homosexual but that he was suicidal and had caused the explosion with either an electronic or chemical detonator. The victims' families, the media, and members of Congress were sharply critical of the Navy's findings. The Senate and House Armed Services Committees both held hearings to inquire into the Navy's investigation and later released reports disputing the Navy's conclusions. The Senate committee asked the General Accounting Office (GAO) to review the Navy's investigation. To assist the GAO, Sandia National Laboratories provided a team of scientists to review the Navy's technical investigation. During its review, Sandia determined that a significant overram of the powder bags into the gun had occurred as it was being loaded and that the overram could have caused the explosion. A subsequent test by the Navy of the overram scenario confirmed that an overram could have caused an explosion in the gun breech. Sandia's technicians also found that the physical evidence did not support the Navy's theory that an electronic or chemical deton...