Taylor Romine

(CNN) — A military aircraft crashed at a base north of Los Angeles Monday morning, Edwards Air Force Base said on social media.

(CNN) — A military aircraft crashed at a base north of Los Angeles Monday morning, Edwards Air Force Base said on social media.

(CNN) — A B-52 bomber crashed shortly after taking off at a remote base northeast of Los Angeles Monday morning, leaving a towering black plume in its wake, Edwards Air Force Base said.

Smoke rises near Edwards Air Force Base after a US Air Force B-52 bomber crashed on June 15.

By Taylor Romine, Davis Winkie, CNN Updated (CNN) — [Breaking news, published at 6 p.m. ET]

(CNN) — Eight crew members are dead in a B-52 bomber crash shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base, northeast of Los Angeles, on Monday morning, the base said.

Smoke rises near Edwards Air Force Base after a US Air Force B-52 bomber crashed on June 15.

(CNN) — A mammoth military plane on a routine test mission crashed shortly after takeoff Monday in Southern California, killing all eight crew members on board and leaving charred wreckage so mangled it was barely recognizable.

The crash of the B-52 bomber sent a towering black plume of smoke into the sky at Edwards Air Force Base, about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, and left a colossal, blackened scar on the runway and the desert terrain beside it.

(CNN) — A mammoth military plane on a routine test mission crashed shortly after takeoff Monday in Southern California, killing all eight crew members on board and leaving charred wreckage so mangled it was barely recognizable.