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Two US military aircraft crashed within 24 hours, including a fatal B-52 accident in California and an F/A-18 crash in Washington.
A B-52 Stratofortress crashed after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base during a radar modernization test mission, killing all eight people aboard.
Investigators are just beginning to determine what went wrong, but the Air Force has struggled to maintain the planes, which were first introduced in 1955.
