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Air Force bomber crashes
An Air Force B-52 bomber carrying six crew members and en route to conduct a flyover in a parade crashed off the island of Guam, officials said.
- AP
- Published: 09:47 July 21, 2008
Honolulu: An Air Force B-52 bomber carrying six crew members and en route to conduct a flyover in a parade crashed off the island of Guam, officials said.
At least two people were recovered from the waters, but their condition was not immediately available, the Coast Guard said.
Rescue crews from the Navy, Coast Guard and local fire department launched a massive aerial and ocean search for the others in and around a vast area of floating debris and a sheen of oil.
The crashed occurred at 9:45 am local time on Monday about 48 kilometers northwest of Apra Harbor, the Air Force said.
The accident is the second for the Air Force this year on Guam, a US territory southwest of Hawaii.
The mishap involved an aircraft from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana as part of the Department of Defense's continuous bomber presence mission in the Pacific.
The B-52 was scheduled to fly over the Liberation Day parade, marking the day when Guam was liberated from Japan.
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