{"id":59,"date":"2026-06-16T10:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/?p=59"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:32:44","slug":"8-killed-after-b-52-bomber-crashes-at-us-air-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"8 killed after B-52 bomber crashes at US Air Force base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff at a US Air Force base in Southern California\u2019s Mojave Desert, killing all eight people aboard.<\/p>\n<p>This incident was reported last night on Monday the 15<sup>th<\/sup> of June 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In a message twitted in the social media, the US military stated that emergency crews were responding after the aircraft went down around 11:20 am local time at Edwards Air Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>CCTV recorded footage along with some portions from the aerial photography \u00a0showed a plume of black smoke rising from the desert near the runway on the base.<\/p>\n<p>The airfield was closed, and all inbound aircraft were being diverted.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, all non-commercial visitor passes for the base were suspended to allow the installation to focus entirely on emergency response operations.<\/p>\n<p>It is not immediately clear what caused the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range bomber that entered service in United States Air Force 1955.<\/p>\n<p>It is designed to carry both conventional and nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards Air Force Base is home to a large portion of the US Air Force\u2019s aircraft test and development efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incident took place at the Edwards Air Force Base in America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[36,26,37,38],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-b-52-bomber","tag-crash","tag-edwards-air-force-base","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}