Video: 'The Palomares Incident | Plane Crash Documentary'

(Thursday, April 7, 1966, embassy in Madrid received the word at 10:33 a.m. Central European Time; during the Cold War) — After an 80-day operation, the U.S. Navy today finally recovered the hydrogen bomb that the U.S. Air Force had lost off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean Sea following a B-52 crash.

After being raised from the sea by a winch, the bomb was loaded onto the rescue ship USS Petrel for shipment back to the United States.