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An important part of the riaintenance Control Unit was the emergency
team, constituted, as in mDwlNC, to effect rapid removal of imwnooilized
aircraft from the sniwetok runway in case of acciaent.
On 18 June 1958, a B-57U of the Sampling Hlement landed on the FD
runway with an unsafe nose gear.
mui, and was imnooilized,
The gear collapsed during the landing
The emergency team utilized a crane belonging
to jolmes and Nurver to raise the aircraft, enabling the team to lower
Lie gear and tow the aircraft to a maintes:.ance area,
re uired 13 minutes,
The removal process
After 113 maintenance man-hours the aircraft was
ayain put in commission,
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-IKLIFT
Airlift for haiwTaca was dividea into three categories, inter-island
aiclift, inter-atoll airlift, and re-supply ¢f sweatner and Project Islands.
The inter-island airlift involved the servicing of sites withi:. the iniwetox and J3ikini Atolls,
The Bikini phase was, in tne main, accomp>lished
o, a syuadron of 15 -arine helicopters.
ab oniwetok, six H-19's and nine n-2l's verformed tne airlift iission
to sites wnere nu landing strips were avallable.
Hight 1-20 aircraft of
tne Test Base Unit fulfilled commitments to sites wnere Landing strips were
availaole,
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