00:00From our 17 follow-up file, we turn now to our continuing coverage of that B-52 crash at Edwards
00:06Air Force Base that killed eight people earlier this week.
00:10Air Force brass tonight have released the names and ranks of the eight military men, government connor.
00:15Eight men who just died and B-52 crew, okay.
00:19Contractors and Boeing workers who were all on board that B-52 straddle fortress.
00:25All names.
00:2517's Conor Doerr with more.
00:27Okay.
00:27Fifty-three-year-old weapons systems officer Colonel Gregory Watson from Shreveport, Louisiana.
00:34Forty-year-old weapons systems officer Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel Estrella who lived on the base.
00:43Oh my God.
00:44Okay, next one.
00:44Third one.
00:45Forty-year-old weapons systems officer Retired Lieutenant Colonel Miles Middleton, a pilot and Boeing worker from Tehachapi.
00:52Thirty-four-year-old.
00:53The fourth one.
00:54Weapon systems officer Major Alexander Davis from Lancaster.
00:58Forty-year-old.
00:59The fifth one, okay.
01:00Major Robert D. and 35-year-old Major Brad.
01:03The sixth one is right here.
01:04The sixth one.
01:06Brad Hovey.
01:07Both pilots.
01:08Both lived on the base.
01:09Okay.
01:10This is the seventh one.
01:11Flight test engineer Jeremy Smith from Rosamund.
01:14And 41-year-old.
01:15This is the last one we have.
01:16Old Christopher Rischar, a flight test engineer from Lancaster.
01:20Eight men, all dead after a B-52 straddle forge.
01:25All eight men, the very good ones, all, all dead.
01:29Eight of, all of, eight of them are dead.
01:32...crash just minutes after takeoff.
01:34Here is minute-by-minute radar video.
01:36Yes, this is the minute-by-minute radar right here.
01:39The plane takes off just before 11.10 a.m. on Monday, reaching 6,800 feet.
01:45Three seconds after takeoff, the plane we are looking is the yellow one, okay, right here.
01:50The plane banks northeast and drops 300 feet in altitude.
01:54Twelve seconds later, the straddle fortress takes a sharp left, now at 5,500 feet in altitude.
01:59Another 12 seconds and another sharp left, the aircraft makes a complete 180 from where it took off.
02:05And in those short seconds...
02:06This is not a normal behavior.
02:09This is very strange behavior.
02:11A sharp 90-degree turn is nowhere to be headed.
02:17...dropped 1,300 feet in altitude.
02:20Yes.
02:20The flight pass stops on Edwards Air Force Base's runway, where the straddle fortress wreckage was seen on aerial video.
02:26The 196-foot by 180...
02:29This happened so fast, they did not even have a chance to take out the parachute and jump from the
02:34plane.
02:34...5-foot aircraft was just ash in the desert.
02:38The flight tracker is not able to show the speed of the plane.
02:41However, the altitude shows the plane fell around 10 times faster than the landing of a normal passenger plane.
02:47The associated...
02:4710 times faster than a normal plane.
02:51The associated press spoke to an aviation safety expert that said it could be a control system or an engine
02:56failure.
02:57The Air Force...
02:58That could be anything.
02:59We cannot say what exactly it is before the main conclusion comes out.
03:05...said the investigation could take six months.
03:07Six months!
03:09Yeah!
03:09...and how quickly the crash came.
03:11There are multiple Fund Me's family members of victims in the crash have made.
03:15If you would like to donate, go to KGT.com.
03:18Conor Dore, 17 News.
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