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B-52 crash at Edwards AFB
Posted on 6/15/26 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 6/15/26 at 2:47 pm
It too many details at the moment
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A United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base at 11:20 a.m. Emergency crews responded to the scene, with the situation "ongoing," according to Edwards Air Force Base. Aerial footage shows a large smoldering burn mark on the land. The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range, heavy, jet-powered strategic bomber.
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Posted on 6/15/26 at 7:37 pm to upgrayedd
Update: Official notice and a press conference was held confirming all 8 onboard as fatalities. Next of Kin notifications are still ongoing so the list of names hasn't been publicly released yet. I knew at least 2 of the crewmembers who were both Boeing employees after retiring from the AF. Please pray for their families, their colleagues and fellow service members, and the entire B-52 test community.
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Posted on 6/15/26 at 2:50 pm to upgrayedd
this is why we needed chuck norris to stay around on this planet longer instead of going off to fight on other worlds
Posted on 6/15/26 at 2:54 pm to CAD703X
That airplane started flying years before Slim Pickens road a bomb out the back.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 2:54 pm to upgrayedd
My neighbor in Shreveport is an electronic warfare office on a B52 out of BAFB.
Prayers to those families.
Prayers to those families.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 2:54 pm to Harvey Vortac
Serious I hope those Airmen are ok.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 2:55 pm to upgrayedd
BUFF crashes are pretty rare, it has been maybe 10 years since the last one. I think there was only 1 in the whole of the first Gulf War.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:04 pm to Obtuse1
Looking at the videos on Twitter, there appears to be nothing left of thr plane.....
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:05 pm to upgrayedd
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:07 pm to Athis
Yeah, that’s not good.
Do they still have ejection seats on B-52s?
Do they still have ejection seats on B-52s?
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:08 pm to Athis
Wow the plane is gone
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:08 pm to upgrayedd
Prayers for the families affected.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:09 pm to Athis
That doesn't look good. I seem to remember a couple of the ejection seats on those go out the bottom. Not good if so.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:12 pm to upgrayedd
Don't know if they've made changes but my Uncle back in the 90s said his ejection seat was out the bottom......
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:13 pm to LSURoss
Some are on the bottom and some are on the top
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:14 pm to upgrayedd
B-52's carry more than their own weight of fuel. It's basically a flying bomb on its own. Not much left when it crashes. Czar 52's airshow crash in '94 was total.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:16 pm to DesScorp
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Czar 52's airshow crash in '94 was total.
iirc that was some barely current, and not real proficient Colonel showboating
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:17 pm to upgrayedd
Yes they still have ejection seats, but my source tells me no one ejected from this.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:18 pm to FlyingTiger06
Hopefully this wasn't the recently re-engined one.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:19 pm to FlyingTiger06
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but my source tells me no one ejected from this.
friend of mine's son flys Buffs out of Barksdale, are you still there?
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:20 pm to upgrayedd
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Do they still have ejection seats on B-52s?
Yeah but the problem is that they're useless at low altitude because they fire from strange places in the aircraft. See the clip above of the airshow crash. Those flares right before impact are ejections, but that low, with that much gas igniting, they either shoot into the ground or can't escape the massive fireball. You can see in this still pic the crewman couldn't even clear the tail this close.
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