{"id":364621,"date":"2026-06-17T19:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/364621\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:43:11","slug":"1-of-8-b-52-bomber-crash-victims-in-california-is-an-iowa-native","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/364621\/","title":{"rendered":"1 of 8 B-52 bomber crash victims in California is an Iowa native"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/air-force-identify-victims-b52-crash-brad-hovey-iowa-native\/71601941\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/air-force-identify-victims-b52-crash-brad-hovey-iowa-native\/71601941\">KCCI<\/a>) &#8211; One of the eight B-52 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/2026\/06\/16\/b-52-test-flight-plunged-rate-nearly-mile-minute-before-deadly-crash-data-shows\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/2026\/06\/16\/b-52-test-flight-plunged-rate-nearly-mile-minute-before-deadly-crash-data-shows\/\">bomber crash<\/a> victims at Edwards Airforce Base in California this week was an Iowa native, KCCI reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Iowa native<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/2026\/06\/17\/military-officials-identify-all-8-victims-fiery-b-52-crash-california-air-force-base\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/2026\/06\/17\/military-officials-identify-all-8-victims-fiery-b-52-crash-california-air-force-base\/\"> has been identified<\/a> as 35-year-old Maj. Brad Hovey of Algona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The bomber crashed shortly after takeoff at the Mojave Desert-based Air Force base, killing all eight people on board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials have yet to determine the cause of the crash and said it could take six months to complete the investigation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"1 of 8 B-52 bomber crash victims is an Iowa native\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/II6ISBHTQNBORJKJYBYB26PU7Y.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>1 of 8 B-52 bomber crash victims is an Iowa native(U.S. Air Force)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCCI. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCCI) &#8211; One of the eight B-52 bomber crash victims at Edwards Airforce Base in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[147105,148016,7,9,8,350,147086,34270],"class_list":["post-364621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-b-52","tag-brad-hovey","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crash","tag-edwards-air-force-base","tag-iowa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364621","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=364621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}