The 1965 Philippine Sea A-4 crash was a Broken Arrow incident in which a United States Navy Douglas A-4E Skyhawk attack aircraft carrying a nuclear weapon fell into the sea off Japan from the aircraft
A MK43 free-fall nuclear weapon on a handling dolly
B43 nuclear bomb
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The B43 was a United States air-dropped variable yield thermonuclear weapon used by a wide variety of fighter bomber and bomber aircraft.
1965 Philippine Sea A-4 incident
…number 2 hangar bay to the elevator. The pilot, Lieutenant (junior grade) Douglas M. Webster; the aircraft, Douglas A-4E BuNo 151022 of VA-56; and the B43 nuclear bomb were never recovered from the 16,000 ft (4,900 m) depth. The accident was said to occur 68 miles (59 nmi; 109 km) from Kikai Island, Kagoshima Prefecture…
Dummy B43 nuclear bomb without warhead
West German F-104G with a ZELL-Verfahren rocket booster and a B-43 nuclear bomb at Gatow, Germany.