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Eight crew members are believed to be dead in a B-52 bomber crash shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base, northeast of Los Angeles, on Monday morning, the base said.

The B-52 Stratofortress was on a routine test mission that took off at 11:20 a.m. local time at the remote air base, officials said, and “initial indications are that the crash was not survivable.”

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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

The B-52H equips four upward firing ejection seats for the pilot, copilot, electronic warfare officer, and gunner, and downward ejection seats for the radar and navigation officers. Each seat independently ejects. Given the low altitude at takeoff over the runway, it’s conceivable that at least two of the five person crew did not make it out of what appears to be a non-survivable crash.

B-52s have been flying sorties over Iran, but today Edwards Air Force Base is home to Air Force testing and educational facilities. The only active groups there that operate the B-52 are the 411th Test Wing and the 31st Test and Evaluation Squadron. So, it’s probably unlikely that this incident was a direct result of the Iran war.

All my hopes for the safe return of all crew members onboard.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 weeks ago

No. It very much speaks to a military that has increasingly demonstrated it exists solely to cause suffering. Every chance we have had to do anything right (like deposing the taliban) we have found a way to somehow leave things even worse. Similarly, we have been proving since we dropped the draft that veterans are screwed once they leave the US version of socialism (but they get priority parking at Lowes so...). And the past few years have been nothing but attacking the military itself in the name of Othering the folk dumb enough to still try and make it work.

And this is AFTER the military has demonstrated it will just wait to side with the winner in the event of a violent insurrection

Fuck 'em. Anyone in the military is "just following orders". So if a few gomers want to crash their planes and result in a few less guns aimed at a civilian populace? Who am I to stop them?

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

It's a shame it was being flown by a crew likely preforming testing, and not an active duty squadron intent on lethal weapons use.

The only detail that makes me feel bad it crashed.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Iirc each one of these costs $1.1 B. I did not know about the human cost as well.

War is all hell.

Edit i think I'm thinking of the B-2 ~~B-1~~ stealth bomber

You’re thinking of the B-2 Spirit

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] jcorvera@quokk.au 3 points 3 weeks ago

Emulating the event at Fairchild, I see?

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Hopefully the ground wasn't injured.

Fuck the American war machine.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world -4 points 3 weeks ago