This is from an Email I got recently, check this out.

>> This is one bad ass airplane........
>>
>> Subject: B-52 Incident
>>
>>
>> PHOTO AT BOTTOM...
>> 
>>
>> January 10, 1964, started out as a typical day for the flight test group
>> at Boeing's Wichita plant. Pilot Chuck Fisher took off in a B-52H with a
>> three-man Boeing crew, flying a low-level profile to obtain structural
>> data.
>>
>> Over Colorado, cruising 500 feet above the mountainous terrain, the B-52
>> encountered some turbulence. Fisher climbed to 14,300 feet looking for
>> smoother air. At this point the typical day ended. The bomber flew into
>> clear-air turbulence. It felt as if the plane had been placed in a giant
>> high-speed elevator, shoved up and down, and hit by a heavy blow on its
>> right side.
>>
>> Fisher told the crew to prepare to abandon the plane.
>> He slowed the aircraft and dropped to about 5,000 feet to make it easier
>> to bail out.
>>
>> But then Fisher regained some control. He climbed slowly to 16,000 feet
>> to put some safety room between the plane and the ground. He informed
>> Wichita about what was happening. Although control was difficult, Fisher
>> said he believed he could get the plane back in one piece.
>>
>> Response to the situation at Wichita, and elsewhere, was immediate. An
>> emergency control center was set up in the office of Wichita's director
>> of flight test.
>> Key Boeing engineers and other specialists were summoned to provide
>> their expertise. Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control
>> centers at Denver and Kansas City cleared the air around the troubled
>> plane. A Strategic Air Command B-52 in the area maintained radio contact
>> with the crew of the Wichita B-52.
>>
>> As Fisher got closer to Wichita, a Boeing chase plane flew up to meet
>> him and to visually report the damage.
>> When Dale Felix, flying an F-100 fighter, came alongside Fisher's B-52,
>> he couldn't believe what he
>> saw: The B-52's vertical tail was gone.
>>
>> Felix broke the news to Fisher and those gathered in the control center.
>> There was no panic. Everyone on the plane and in the control center knew
>> they could be called upon at any time for just such a situation. In the
>> emergency control center, the engineers began making calculations and
>> suggesting the best way to get the plane down safely.
>>
>> The Air Force was also lending assistance. A B-52, just taking off for a
>> routine flight, was used to test the various flight configurations
>> suggested by the specialists before Fisher had to try them.
>>
>> As high gusty winds rolled into Wichita, the decision was made to divert
>> the B-52 to Blytheville Air Force Base in Northeastern Arkansas.
>>
>> Boeing specialists from the emergency control center took off in a
>> KC-135 and accompanied Fisher to Blytheville, serving as an airborne
>> control center.
>> Six hours after the incident first occurred, Fisher and his crew brought
>> in the damaged B-52 for a safe landing.
>>
>> "I'm very proud of this crew and this airplane,"
>> Fisher said. "Also we had a lot people helping us, and we're very
>> thankful for that." The B-52, Fisher said, "Its the finest airplane I
>> ever flew."
>>

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