A B-1 bomber crashed Thursday evening at the Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota.
All four crew members who were flying the Lancer bomber ejected safely, according to the Air Force.
In a statement, the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth said the aircraft crashed ‘at approximately 5:50 p.m. today while attempting to land on the installation. At the time of the accident, it was on a training mission. There were four aircrew on board. All four ejected safely.’
Visibility was reportedly poor at the time of the crash and temperatures below freezing and low hanging cloud coverage.
B-1 bombers are standard issue supersonic planes that first came into service by the Air Force in the 1980s
South Dakota’s Ellsworth Air Force Base, where on Thursday evening four crewmen safely ejected from a B-1 Lancer bomber that crashed
The B-1 aircraft is a standard issue supersonic bomber plane that first came into service during the Reagan Administration in the 1980s.
Just 100 B-1s were originally built, though fewer than 60 remain in service today and are kept at the Dyess Air Force Base in Texas and South Dakota’s Ellsworth base.
The planes have been used to support US bomber presence in the Asia-Pacific region and to conduct close air support missions during US operations in Afghistan.
The aircrafts are not used to carry nuclear weapons.