{"id":362573,"date":"2026-06-16T09:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/362573\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:09:08","slug":"smoke-rises-after-us-air-force-b-52-bomber-crashes-in-flames-in-california-video-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/362573\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke rises after US air force B-52 bomber crashes in flames in California \u2013 video | US news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US military B-52 Stratofortress bomber crashed shortly after takeoff from Edwards air force base in southern California&#8217;s Mojave Desert. All eight crew members aboard were presumed to have been killed, air base officials say in a statement released on Monday. The eight-engine, jet-powered Boeing aircraft \u2013 built to carry nuclear and conventional bombs \u2013 was on a routine test mission when it went down. Aerial video footage of the crash scene, about 100 miles (161km) north of Los Angeles, showed a charred, smouldering patch of the desert floor roughly the size of a football field as an emergency vehicle was seen driving along the site&#8217;s perimeter<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A US military B-52 Stratofortress bomber crashed shortly after takeoff from Edwards air force base in southern California&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-362573","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\/362573","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=362573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}