 The aircraft had mounted on it a B43 nuclear bomb.The pilot, Lieutenant JG Douglas Webster, the A-4E Skyhawk, BuNo "151022", of Attack Squadron VA-56 "Champions", and the nuclear weapon were all lost.No public mention was made of the incident at the time and it would not come to light until a 1981 United States Department of Defense report revealed that a one-megaton bomb had been lost.