‘Something was wrong with the plane’: Wife of B-52 crash victim speaks out



The wife of one of the crew members aboard the B-52 bomber that crashed at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California Monday, killing all eight people on board, spoke with KTLA 5 News Tuesday. KTLA’s Sara Welch reports.

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  1. The curse of this WMD victims' families is finally heard. Condolences to the bereaved families – the crew members were in the wrong place at the wrong time

  2. There was a problem with the plane that caused delay after delay, as the wife of the victim said, then there should be all the maintenance records there on hand…….why were they in a hurry to leave?…was the problem fixed before they left or someone made the call to get it in the air and fix it later??… what was onboard?

  3. "Beautiful kids" to bring just a tiny bit more sensation and feelings in the viewers while interviewing a person thats obviously still in a state of shock….This media is outright horrible greedy in it's hunt for a bit more views. Shame on you

  4. When your in the military. Accidents happen. Especially if they don't like you or you cause waves.and after your out you face VA dr, and nurses that have accidents. Veterans aren't safe. Ever.

  5. I flew the B-52 in the early 70's. I'm guessing something went wrong with the new radar test? The radar sits immediately below the pilot's cockpit. I experienced a radar fire on one flight. The smoke from the burning radar bundle came up through the throttle quadrant. It happened so fast the cockpit filled with smoke almost immediately. Lucky for us we were able to hit the cockpit air evacuation switch and vent the smoke overboard. In just a few more seconds we wouldn't have been able to see anything. Such an emergency caused a B-52 crew to bail out over Greenland in the 1960's. Could it be this crew experienced a similar emergency on takeoff and didn't have time to fix the problem or became distracted at that very critical phase of flight (takeoff)? At that time, in the early 1970's, there was no "Emergency Procedure" in the B-52's checklist, to handle "Smoke in Cockpit".

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