B-52 Bomber Crashes In Mojave Desert

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — Officials say a B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff at a U.S. Air Force base in California’s Mojave Desert. The military posted on the social platform X that emergency crews were responding after the aircraft went down around 11:20 a.m. Monday at Edwards Air Force Base. There was no immediate information on whether anyone was hurt. A B-52 is typically crewed by five people. 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 collision with a military B-52 bomber that was in its flight path.