Lily Bay Road on the southern shore of Moosehead Lake intersects with an easy-to-miss turnoff marked with a small sign that reads: Prong Pong Road. The remnants of this crash lie at the end of a tree-lined road only fifteen minutes from the town of Greenville. Bulli, who spent the night dangling from a tree 30 feet above the ground in minus 29-degree temperatures. He landed upright in the snow in his ejection seat, fracturing three ribs and his skull. Adler is the only person ever to survive an ejection from an aircraft without the parachute opening. Morrison parachuted from the bomber but was killed when he hit a tree. Only three crew members - all on the top flight deck - had the time and means to eject. Unable to level the B-52C, the pilot ordered the crew to abandon it. Those strong winds triggered a structural failure part of the bomber's tail was torn off.
The aircraft, however, ran into turbulence from gusts buffeting off the mountains of western Maine. On a brutally cold January afternoon in 1963, nine crew members took off from Westover AFB in Massachusetts in the subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber on what should have been a routine training mission. You are free to wander through this living memorial of a Cold War tragedy. The pieces of wreckage and aircraft debris cover several acres of forest. Visitors to the recreational mecca that is Moosehead Lake may not realize that eight miles into the woods on the southern slope of Elephant Mountain is a crash site of a giant United States Air Force Boeing B-52C Stratofortress.
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