{"id":74924,"date":"2026-06-15T20:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/eight-presumed-dead-after-b-52-bomber-crashes-at-california-air-force-base\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T20:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:58:34","slug":"eight-presumed-dead-after-b-52-bomber-crashes-at-california-air-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/eight-presumed-dead-after-b-52-bomber-crashes-at-california-air-force-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight presumed dead after B-52 bomber crashes at California air force base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>B-52 crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards air force base in southern California\u2019s Mojave Desert, officials say<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eight people are presumed dead after a B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff on Monday morning at a US air force base in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a>\u2019s Mojave Desert, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn Air Force B-52 Stratofortress carrying eight people on a routine test mission crashed today shortly after take-off at 11:20 a.m,\u201d Edwards air force base said in a statement Monday afternoon. \u201cInitial indications are that the crash was not survivable. Emergency response personnel are on scene, and officials are working to account for all personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/15\/b52-bomber-crash-california-military-base\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B-52 crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards air force base in southern California\u2019s Mojave Desert, officials say Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Eight people are presumed dead after a B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff on Monday morning at a US air force base in California\u2019s Mojave Desert, officials said. \u201cAn &#8230; <a title=\"Eight presumed dead after B-52 bomber crashes at California air force base\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/eight-presumed-dead-after-b-52-bomber-crashes-at-california-air-force-base\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Eight presumed dead after B-52 bomber crashes at California air force base\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}