Eight people are presumed dead after a United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress "crashed and burst into flames" shortly after takeoff Monday, June 15, in California, military officials said.
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Eight people are presumed dead after a United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress "crashed and burst into flames" shortly after takeoff Monday, June 15, in California, military officials said.
Eight people are presumed dead after a United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress "crashed and burst into flames" shortly after takeoff Monday, June 15, in California, military officials said. Officials are investigating an "unsurvivable" military plane crash that killed eight people in California on Monday. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress plane crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base.
CBS News' Carter Evans has more details on the crash and the aircraft's history.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the story as "'Unsurvivable': 8 dead after Air Force B-52 bomber crash in California." CBS News reported the story as "Catastrophic B-52 bomber plane crash was "unsurvivable," military official says."
2 sources have covered this story, including CBS News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The earliest reporting in the cluster landed about 4 hours ago.
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