B-52 Crash, crew killed

B-52 Crash, crew killed

www.saukvalley.com

HONOLULU (AP) - An Air Force B-52 bomber crashed off Guam on Monday morning, killing at least three airmen and leading to an intensive ocean search for the remaining three crew members, the military said.

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I wanted to share this. The part that caught my attention was "The plane that crashed Monday was based at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana"
I hope others look into this or at least be aware.

thanks


www.saukvalley.com
(visit the link for the full news article)

There is another thread on the site somewhere, I can't find it, about strange maneuvers at Barksdale AFB a few days before this happened. I wonder if it had any relation to the accident or not. I will try and find it and include it here.

This is already being discussed here on this site at this thread for the past 2 days:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Please feel free to contribute.

Also I haven't seen any threads about strange maneuvers by the B-52s in Barksdale but to clarify the planes home base was Barksdale but the B-52 was deployed to Guam in a rotation there for the past month. So any resent activity there doesn't mean a real link between the maneuvers and the crash.

"Interesting happenings at Barksdale AFB"

This is the title of the thread about strange maneuvers at Barksdale. Sorry can't get it to post correctly.

[edit on 23-7-2008 by Jbird]

All 6 names have been released.

Air Force officials have released the names of the Barksdale crew members of the B-52 that crashed July 21 off Guam's northwest coast. Five of the six crew members were stationed here.

They are Maj. Christopher M. Cooper, 33, aircraft commander; Maj. Brent D. Williams, 37, navigator; Capt. Michael K. Dodson, 31, co-pilot; 1st Lt. Joshua D. Shepherd, 26, navigator; and 1st Lt. Robert D Gerren, 32, electronic warfare officer.

The sixth crew member was Col. George Martin, flight surgeon and deputy commander of 36th Medical Group at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.

www.af.mil...

Of note also is the media sited at the begin of this thread is incorrect in the number of servicemen involved and for a proper report please follow the following link:
www.air-attack.com...