The strange case of AF pilot Craig Button

[whitehall]

Pilot Craig Button was a graduate aerospace engineer with 5 years experience. On 4/2 97 his Air Force A-10 left formation on a routine live fire exercise near Tuscon, Az. and headed north. Witnesses say his plane maneuvered around bad weather but the transponder was turned off and frantic radio messages were unanswered. The plane finally crashed into a mountain with about 5 minutes estimated flying time fuel left. The kicker is that despite the use of ground penetrating radar and metal detectors the five live 500 lb. bombs were never recovered.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Missing a few h-bombs too. One's still stuck in the mud in Georgia think it is.

...Ya Georgia:
The Tybee Island B-47 crash was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, United States.
1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You'd think that'd be something of a priority 'to do' item, recovering it.