Give a donation in someone’s name to mark a special occasion, honor a friend or colleague or remember a beloved family member. It recommended, however, improved communications between the Air Force and local officials in case of accidents and a modification of the Air Force’s policy of neither confirming nor denying the presence and condition of nuclear weapons at an accident site. “Explosive Era: Tour Visits Site Where Titan II Blast in 1980 Sent Warhead Flying.” Stumpf, David K. “We Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny.” In Major support provided through a partnership with the Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism.Major funding provided by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.Special thanks to the Department of Arkansas Heritage.Additional support provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council.Additional support provided by the Arkansas General Assembly.Additional support provided by the Arkansas Community Foundation.Additional support provided by the Charles M. and Joan R. Taylor Foundation Inc.Honor or memorial gifts are an everlasting way to pay tribute to someone who has touched your life.
He was the only fatality of the explosion. Your monthly donation provides ongoing and predictable support we can count on to fund educational and cultural programming for the patrons, communities, and neighborhoods being served by CALS.Leave your legacy with a planned gift that can help ensure quality materials, programming, and services for our libraries. Livingston lay amid the rubble of the launch duct for some time before security personnel located and evacuated him. Six Air Force servicemen—Livingston (posthumously), Kennedy, Hukle, Devlin, Don Green, and Jimmy Roberts—were awarded Airman’s Medals for Heroism in May 1981 for their actions (though Kennedy had earlier received an official reprimand), and the Titan II maintenance structure at Fellone, Frank. Senator David Pryor, after reading Pentagon Titan II report, May 1980. Senior Airman David Livingston and Sergeant Jeff K. Kennedy then entered the launch complex early on the morning of September 19 to get readings of airborne fuel concentrations, which they found to be at their maximum. Damascus, Ark. Powell was working on a Titan II missile fitted with a thermonuclear warhead, tucked away underground in Damascus, Arkansas. Just as they sat down on the concrete edge of the access portal, the missile exploded, blowing the 740-ton launch duct closure door 200 feet into the air and some 600 feet northeast of the launch complex. Ultimately, the Air Force decided to seal the complex with soil, gravel, and small concrete debris.A congressional inquiry into the accident found the Titan II missile program to be essentially reliable. ! But of course knowing what tribe you come from, money would make it all better for you right?So to make everyone feel better, they destroyed 11 of the silo's! Livingston and Kennedy were presumed dead, being so much closer to the blast zone, but they were eventually rescued. Damascus, Ark. Damascus, AR Missile Silo Explosion, Sep 1980. © 2019 Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Creating an account gives you access to all these features. For more information, contact 501-918-3025 or Or, sign up for Kroger Rewards and a portion of your purchases at Kroger will be donated to the CALS Foundation.
(AP) -- The Air Force today would neither confirm nor deny reports that a nuclear warhead was blown out of the underground site in an explosion at a Tital II missile site that killed an Air Force sergeant and injured 21 other maintenance workers. A third Titan II missile accident happened Sept. 19, 1980, in Damascus, Arkansas. Forget the cost, money comes and goes, a life lost is gone forever.