{"id":74928,"date":"2026-06-16T00:56:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/smoke-rises-after-us-air-force-b-52-bomber-crashes-in-flames-in-california-video\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T00:56:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:56:56","slug":"smoke-rises-after-us-air-force-b-52-bomber-crashes-in-flames-in-california-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/smoke-rises-after-us-air-force-b-52-bomber-crashes-in-flames-in-california-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke rises after US air force B-52 bomber crashes in flames in California \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US military B-52 Stratofortress bomber crashed shortly after takeoff from Edwards air force base in southern California&#8217;s Mojave Desert. All eight crew members aboard were presumed to have been killed, air base officials say in a statement released on Monday. The eight-engine, jet-powered Boeing aircraft \u2013 built to carry nuclear and conventional bombs \u2013 was on a routine test mission when it went down. Aerial video footage of the crash scene, about 100 miles (161km) north of Los Angeles, showed a charred, smouldering patch of the desert floor roughly the size of a football field as an emergency vehicle was seen driving along the site&#8217;s perimeter<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/15\/b52-bomber-crash-california-military-base\">Eight presumed dead after B-52 bomber crashes at California air force base<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2026\/jun\/16\/smoke-rises-after-us-air-force-b-52-bomber-crashes-in-flames-in-california-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US military B-52 Stratofortress bomber crashed shortly after takeoff from Edwards air force base in southern California&#8217;s Mojave Desert. All eight crew members aboard were presumed to have been killed, air base officials say in a statement released on Monday. The eight-engine, jet-powered Boeing aircraft \u2013 built to carry nuclear and conventional bombs \u2013 &#8230; <a title=\"Smoke rises after US air force B-52 bomber crashes in flames in California \u2013 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/smoke-rises-after-us-air-force-b-52-bomber-crashes-in-flames-in-california-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Smoke rises after US air force B-52 bomber crashes in flames in California \u2013 video\">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-74928","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\/74928","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=74928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}