Smoke rises after US air force B-52 bomber crashes in flames in California
A US military B-52 Stratofortress bomber crashed shortly after takeoff from Edwards air force base in southern California’s Mojave Desert.
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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 – built to carry nuclear and conventional bombs – 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’s perimeter
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