{"id":363129,"date":"2026-06-16T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363129\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:12:08","slug":"b-52-crashes-at-edwards-air-force-base-edwards-air-force-base-article-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363129\/","title":{"rendered":"B-52 crashes at Edwards Air Force Base > Edwards Air Force Base > Article View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n            EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. &#8212; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An Air Force B-52 Stratofortress carrying eight people on a routine test mission crashed today shortly after take-off at 11:20 a.m. (PDT). Initial indications are that the crash was not survivable. Emergency response personnel are on scene, and officials are working to account for all personnel.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The crash is currently under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A press conference is scheduled for 4:15 p.m. (PDT).<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Contacts: Chase Kohler, 661-810-6611, or 661-494-2203, or Mike Paoli, 661-494-2203<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. &#8212; \u00a0 An Air Force B-52 Stratofortress carrying eight people on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,147559],"class_list":["post-363129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-edwards-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363129","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=363129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}