8 Crew Members Likely Dead After B-52 Bomber Crashes in California

Eight crew members are believed useless after an Air Power B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base in California on Monday.

Emergency responders rushed to the scene after the plane went down round 11:20 a.m. native time throughout what officers described as a “routine check mission.”

“An Air Power B-52 Stratofortress carrying eight individuals on a routine check mission crashed at the moment shortly after takeoff at 11:20 a.m. (PDT),” Edwards Air Power Base stated in a social media assertion. “Preliminary indications are that the crash was not survivable.”

Edwards Air Power Base didn’t instantly reply to a request for feedback.

Pictures from the crash confirmed a big plume of black smoke rising from the bottom.

Edwards Air Power Base posted on X that it has closed operations and diverted incoming plane as of 12:48 pm native time.

Edwards Air Power Base is residence to a number of the navy’s most superior flight-testing packages, together with the Air Power Take a look at Heart and Take a look at Pilot College. The 480 square-mile base in Kern County was the place pilot Chuck Yeager broke the pace of sound in 1947.

The Boeing-made B-52 Stratofortress first entered service within the Nineteen Fifties and stays a key a part of the Air Power’s bomber fleet. The plane has been utilized in conflicts within the Center East, together with just lately in opposition to Iran.