"C-141B "

A C-141-B fuselage section at the instant of hitting the concrete pad during a drop test at Sandia's Coyote Canyon

In 1994, the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA) asked Sandia to carry out a safety evaluation on Minuteman III weapons when subjected to a transportation accident during transport on a C-141B aircraft. Two aircraft sections with mock weapons containers were subjected to drop tests at varying altitudes The test results are being used by DNA to validate numerical predictions of aircraft response during postulated accident conditions.