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CNN 国际新闻
📌 标题：An engineer marking his wedding anniversary, service members and Boeing employees among victims of B-52 bomber crash
📅 发布时间：Updated Jun 17, 2026, 1:34 PM ET
📝 英文原文：
A crew of military service members and government contractors were among the eight people killed when aB-52 Stratofortress crashedshortly after takeoff Monday in Southern California.The mammoth military plane took off at 11:20 a.m. on a routine test mission from Edwards Air Force Base, the storied desert base about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The plane was carrying eight people, though it typically flies with a crew of five, and was supporting a program to modernize the aging fleet.The Air Force released the names of all eight victims Wednesday, after notifying their relatives: Col. Gregory Watson, 53; Lt. Col. Gabriel Estrella, 40; retired Lt. Col. Miles Middleton, 50; Maj. Alexander Davis, 34; Maj. Robert Dee, 40; Maj. Brad Hovey, 35; Christopher Rischar, 41; and Jeromy Smith, 32.Middleton worked for Boeing, and Watson, an Air Force reservist, was at his civilian job with Boeing at the time of the crash. Rischar, a flight test engineer, was an employee of defense contracting firm JT4.“These Airmen were more than coworkers. They were friends, mentors, teammates and valued members of our Edwards and Air Force family,” Col. Thomas Tauer, 412th Test Wing Commander, told workers and families at the base, according to statement shared by the Air Force.“The loss of Miles and Greg is deeply felt across our teams, and our hearts remain with their families, loved ones and those who worked with them,” Boeing said in a statement.Smith, a civilian flight test engineer for the Department of Defense, had worked at Edwards for 10 years and was the father of two young sons – a 2-year-old and an infant just 4 months old, his wife, Lauren Smith, told CNN affiliateKBAK/KBFX.“He’s a hero. He is someone that people look up to, and just an all-around amazing person,” his wife told the station. “He died doing what he loved.”The couple had marked their fourth wedding anniversary days before the crash, she said.The deaths mark the deadliest B-52 crash since 1982, when nine crew me
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🇨🇳 中文翻译：
一架 B-52 同温层堡垒周一在南加州起飞后不久坠毁，造成 8 人死亡，其中包括军人和政府承包商。这架巨大的军用飞机于上午 11 点 20 分从爱德华兹空军基地起飞执行例行测试任务，爱德华兹空军基地是位于洛杉矶东北约 100 英里的著名沙漠基地。这架飞机载有 8 名乘客，但通常只有 5 名机组人员飞行，并且正在支持一项对老化机队进行现代化改造的计划。
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