A crashed B-1 from Diego Garcia sank with its ordnance into the Indian Ocean.

Evidence

Meanwhile, during the bombing of the Tora Bora cave complex in Afghanistan in late 2001, a B-1 bomber loaded with ordnance crashed after takeoff from Diego Garcia. The crew ejected, and the pilotless plane ended up at the bottom of the Indian Ocean along with its payload of bombs, which could total more than 85 hundred-pound munitions. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 412

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 412
  • XREF: connects to: U.S. ships dumped sewage into Diego Garcia’s lagoon and crashed a loaded B-1 there.
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: U.S. ships dumped sewage into Diego Garcia’s lagoon and crashed a loaded B-1 there.