TOWNSHIP 8, RANGE 10 (AP) — A team of Maine forest rangers is retrieving an ejection seat from a B-52 bomber that crashed on a western Maine mountain nearly 50 years ago.
Ranger Bruce Reed found the seat on an overgrown logging road on Elephant Mountain near Greenville while hunting last fall. He and other rangers are returning to the site today, where they will use a cargo net to carry out the 75- to 85-pound seat.
Seven airmen were killed when the B-52 crashed on Jan. 24, 1963, during a routine training mission.
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