It is not immediately clear if there are any injuries.
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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,”
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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
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.
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)
Yeah dumping fuel is standard before attempting any risky landing in any plane. You want to minimize the changes of a fire all. That takes quite a while though. Definitely not something happening on takeoff when it’s fully loaded and fueled.
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It’s not like there’s ejection seats but it would be fuckin wild if someone managed to jump out of the bomb bay.
It’s been renamed to Mumbai
It’d’ve been wild if someone had managed to jump out the Mumbai
There are 6 ejection seats on the B52
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.
Yeah dumping fuel is standard before attempting any risky landing in any plane. You want to minimize the changes of a fire all. That takes quite a while though. Definitely not something happening on takeoff when it’s fully loaded and fueled.