It goes without saying, planes aren't supposed to collide with each other.

Just taking statistics into account, you're a lot more likely to hear about automobile

collisions than airplanes because of the simple fact that there are more cars on the road

today than planes in the air.

Still, as unusual as it might sound, it does happen.

In the late 1950s, two military planes were flying off the coast of Georgia above the

waters of the Atlantic that feed into Savannah's tiby roads.

It's a busy shipping lane on the surface of the water, but on February 5th of 1958,

the sky above was busy as well.

At 2am that morning, a B-47 bomber was running a simulated mission along the coast, heading

up from Florida.

At the same time, an F-86 fighter plane was patrolling from the north.

But when they collided, it wasn't disastrous like you might see in a movie, neither plane

exploded, but they were both badly damaged.

The pilot of the fighter plane had to eject and let the plane drop into the sea.

The bomber, though, managed to stay in the air.

It lost a little altitude, though, and it was clear that they were going to need an emergency

landing and, fast, to help, they requested permission to jettison some extra weight, which

they did.

They only dropped one thing, though.

On board, it was a bomb that weighed nearly 8,000 pounds, a nuclear bomb, and they released

it off the coast of Taipei Island, where it plummeted into the sea below.

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