even modernized, those planes are old. OLD old. They all used to be packed with vacuum tubes sort of old. The last one ever built left the assembly line in 1962. 64 years ago.
It’s the plane Slim Pickens flies in Dr. Strangelove
It is not immediately clear if there are any injuries.
Edit - newer info:
Monday afternoon, the base said eight people were on the aircraft during a routine test mission.
“Initial indications are that the crash was not survivable,”Edit - latest info:
Eight people died after a B-52 Stratofortress crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff on a test mission Monday from Edwards Air Force base in California’s Mojave Desert
It’s not like there’s ejection seats but it would be fuckin wild if someone managed to jump out of the bomb bay.
Huh, TIL thanks. That’s just for flight crew though, I imagine the techs were in the bay with no idea
100% although 8 souls aboard is atypical. Crew usually consists of 5, all of whom can eject.
So they don’t have ejection seats.
That doesn’t bode well.I was wrong about that but only for the flight crew, it was designed to just carry a whole bunch of bombs so not a lot of passenger safety measures built in.
What, exactly, is your point? Aircraft crash without the crew being injured quite frequently.
The point was: my first question reading the headline - how many were injured.
So I went and read the article, then quoted it here so people don’t need to do the same.
Human life is still human life. I don’t wish death or injury on anyone. *Except in maybe 5 special cases (but out of billions it is not a bad ratio)It crashed in a big fireball, as aircraft full of fuel tend to do. Fun fact, many of these dump their fuel – or used to–before they land.
Well, that’s a Boeing, so a small percentage of crashes are to be expected.
They were built so long ago that it was back when Boeing’s engineering reputation was good.
Well, unfortunately the current priorities may not be the same as it was then.
No matter how well something is built, if the maintenance is bad, you waste all that good engineering.
Some of them are designed to not crash at all!
One down, a bunch more to go, thank you for your service in getting rid of these
Wat? There’s like 3 more left. They are a museum piece.
ohhh no the poor genociders. 🙁
Oh no, poor US nazis. Cry me a river.
Suckers and losers.
The people downvoting can take a fucking hike. Anyone willingly serving shitstain bigoted pigs are valid targets and dont deserve to be mourned.
Resign or accept the fucking consequences of cowardice.
The USA is ran by fascist who work for the capitalist. They are unpopular and willing to false flag in order to build up the already bloated military budget. The rift between israel and the USA is just for show. Netinyahoo isn’t really in charge. People need to remember the capitalist are in charge. Fascist are the useful idiots of empire
This would be a terrible idea for a false flag, this is an aircraft older than the typical US senator, operating from a base in the middle of the USA. It’s most likely that this was a mechanical issue.
this is an aircraft older than the typical US senator
Let’s not get too hasty, the B-52H variant was first produced in 1961, making it 65 years old. A 65 year old incumbent senator still has three, maybe four good decades left in office…
And whay link your rant has with the current topic?
