USAF B52 Bomber Crashed in Guam on Monday

[Yusoff 1]

From CNN:

 

Two bodies found after B-52 crash near GuamStory Highlights

July 21, 2008 -- Updated 0851 GMT (1651 HKT)

 

(CNN) -- Two airmen were found dead in the Pacific Ocean and rescuers were trying to find four others after a U.S. Air Force B-52 crashed off the island of Guam on Monday, the Air Force said.

 

The B-52H Stratofortress, was in Guam as part of a four-month rotation.

 

Rescuers found the bodies about 30 miles northwest of Guam, not far from where the bomber was believed to have crashed at about 9:45 a.m. local time, the Air Force said.

 

One of the dead airmen was identified, but the identity was withheld pending family notification, the Air Force said.

 

Search crews have found no survivors, but they are still looking, said Lt. Elizabeth Buendia, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Coast Guard in Guam, which is a U.S. territory.

 

The B-52H Stratofortress had six airmen aboard and was on a training mission when it crashed, the Air Force said. It was scheduled to fly over crowds celebrating Liberation Day, which commemorates the U.S. capture of Guam from Japan in 1944, the Air Force said.

 

The bomber was based at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana but was at Guam's Andersen Air Force Base as part of a four-month rotation, said Capt. Joel Stark, an Andersen Air Force Base spokesman.

 

No weapons or munitions were aboard the aircraft and information on what led to the crash wasn't available, the Air Force said.

[Radzi 2]

Hopefully the aircraft will become an artificial reef and finally becomes something useful to mankind and nature.

 

Just hope that more bombers and fighters will crash.

[Azmir I. 1]

Hopefully the aircraft will become an artificial reef and finally becomes something useful to mankind and nature.

 

Just hope that more bombers and fighters will crash.

 

 

Been to Guam for a couple of times while still serving with RMAF.They have 3 airfields on Guam,Agana NAS belongs to US Navy,Guam International and Andersen AFB,HQ to 13th Air Force - no operational units based there.While at Andersen AFB saw the Arc Light memorial,dedicated to crews who fail to return from combat missions over Vietnam,names included a Brigadier General as one of those who didnt return.

Guam is popular with tourists from Japan and South Korea,it has some of the most beautiful sandy beaches in the Pacific,even better than the ones in Malaysia and they are very clean inded,unlike ours.