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"... 16) January 21, 1968: B-52 Crash near Thule ..."

BBC reported an update on NOV10 of this crash ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=361172

A discussion of that report with friends yesterday led on to Stanislav Petrov ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov ) whose name I couldn't remember at the time and thus via that Wikipedia article to this list of near-disasters. So not entirely a coincidence!
I find obscure failure modes fascinating - for the similarly obsessed, try out the RISKS digests: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks