{"id":24246,"date":"2024-02-27T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T02:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=24246"},"modified":"2024-02-27T20:58:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T02:58:21","slug":"us-b-52-bomber-conducts-emergency-landing-due-to-single-engine-fire-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=24246","title":{"rendered":"US B-52 Bomber Conducts Emergency Landing Due to Single-Engine Fire &#8211; Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">WASHINGTON (Sputnik) &#8211; A US B-52 bomber capable of carrying nuclear weapons had to conduct an emergency landing in the state of North Dakota due to a single-engine fire, a Minot Air Force Base spokesperson said in a statement to Sputnik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cA United States B-52H Stratofortress bomber from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota performed an emergency landing at approximately 12:52 a.m. February 23, 2024, at Minot AFB, North Dakota due to a single engine fire,&#8221; the spokesperson said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">According to the base, none of the crewmembers of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240223\/why-russias-tu-160m-strategic-bomber-is-second-to-none-for-nuclear-deterrence-1116940109.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aircraft<\/a>&nbsp;were injured and the Minot Air Force Base fire department arrived on the scene to extinguish the engine fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The incident is currently under investigation, the spokesperson noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240228\/us-b-52-bomber-conducts-emergency-landing-due-to-single-engine-fire---air-force-1117027899.html\">sputnikglobe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Sputnik) &#8211; A US B-52 bomber capable of carrying nuclear weapons had to conduct an emergency landing in the state of North Dakota due to a single-engine fire, a Minot Air Force Base spokesperson said in a statement to Sputnik. \u201cA United States B-52H Stratofortress bomber from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota performed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[1337,7284,602],"class_list":["post-24246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-air","tag-bomber","tag-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24249,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24246\/revisions\/24249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}