Eight people were killed after a US Air Force B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards Air Force base in California.
"We lost eight great Americans," James Hayes, the deputy commander at Edwards Air Force base, said at a news conference.
Aerial footage showed virtually nothing left of the aircraft that went down around 11:20 a.m. local time, the base said.
The entire airfield was closed and all inbound flights were diverted after the aircraft went down at the base.
Emergency crews responded immediately after the crash but the air base said in an earlier social media post that initial indications were that "the crash was not survivable."
