A mammoth military plane on a routine test mission crashed shortly after takeoff Monday in Southern California, killing all eight crew members on board and leaving charred wreckage so mangled it was ...

Investigators are just beginning to determine what went wrong, but the Air Force has struggled to maintain the planes, which were first introduced in 1955. By Shawn Hubler Dave Philipps and John Ismay ...

A towering black plume of smoke rose over the Mojave Desert on the morning of June 15, 2026 — the unmistakable signature of catastrophe at one of America’s most storied flight test facilities. A B-52 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The identities of the eight crew members onboard a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber that crashed near Edwards Air Force Base on June 15 ...