B-52 bomber crashes shortly after takeoff from US Air Force base in California | Watch

Emergency crews responded after the aircraft went down at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert; officials said there was no immediate information on injuries

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A B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff Monday morning at a U.S. Air Force base in California's Mojave desert, officials said.
Emergency crews were responding after the aircraft went down around 11:20 a.m. at Edwards Air Force base, the military said on the social platform X. There was no immediate information on whether anyone was hurt. A B-52 Stratofortress is typically crewed by five people.
Edwards, the vast desert base where Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound in 1947, is about 100 miles (161 km) north of Los Angeles.
The crash comes almost a year after the pilot of a regional airliner flying over North Dakota last July made an unexpected sharp turn to avoid a possible midair collisionwith a military B-52 bomber that was in its flight path.
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