Two rescued as B-52 crashes into water

[panzerfaust]

Source: Sydney Morning Herald (AFP)

The US Air Force says a B-52 bomber carrying six crew members has crashed off the island of Guam...

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/two-rescued-as-b52-crashes-into-water/2008/07/21/1216492325548.html

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Tiny bit more at:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/21/guam.crash/index.html

[The Croquist]

1. Two conflicting reports but both are bad

The Sydney Morning Herald says there were two possible survivors out of six. CNN says that they hadn't found any yet.

B-52's are old. The last ones were built in 1962.

[MaineDem]

2. They may be old but they're consistently maintained

They are still used a lot.

The news about the crew of this one doesn't seem very positive at all.

[Arctic Dave]

3. This makes two they lost

in a couple of years. I would hope they do a complete investigation of what is going on at this base. Older plane or not this is a bad pattern starting to emerge.

[happygoluckytoyou]

4. McCain says Persians did it... we should bomb Persia

[exothermic]

5. If Ceylon and Burma will let us use their runways...

;-)