The Air Force on Wednesday identified the eight people killed when a B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base.
The crew included pilots, weapon systems officers, flight test engineers, Boeing employees and a contractor working on the military’s bomber modernization programs.
The eight died Monday when the aircraft went down during a routine test mission at the Mojave Desert base, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles. The Air Force said the crash was “unsurvivable.”…