Four days after the accident, the Spanish government stated that "the Palomares incident was evidence of the dangers created by NATO's use of the Gibraltar airstrip", announcing that NATO aircraft would no longer be permitted to fly over Spanish territory either to or from Gibraltar [REF].
Fifty years later in the town of Palomares, most people prefer to forget the incident, and it is now noted only by a street named "17 January 1966" [REF].