{"id":361969,"date":"2026-06-15T22:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361969\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:50:09","slug":"b-52-carrying-eight-crashes-at-edwards-air-force-base-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361969\/","title":{"rendered":"B-52 carrying eight crashes at Edwards Air Force Base in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Air Force is investigating after a B-52 Stratofortress carrying eight people crashed shortly after takeoff Monday at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California.<\/p>\n

The aircraft went down on the airfield at about 11:20 a.m., according to a Facebook post from the base<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Initial indications according to the base is that the crash was not survivable. Officials are working to account for all personnel.<\/p>\n

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Edwards Air Force Base is located in the Mojave Desert, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The base said its airfield is closed and all inbound aircraft are being diverted.<\/p>\n

“All non-commercial visitor passes have been suspended until further notice to allow the installation to focus entirely on emergency response operations,” the base said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The B-52 first entered service in the 1950s and remains one of the Air Force’s primary long-range bombers. The aircraft is capable of carrying and deploying a wide range of conventional and nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Air Force is investigating after a B-52 Stratofortress carrying eight people crashed shortly after takeoff Monday at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-361969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}