An engineer marking his wedding anniversary, service members and Boeing employees among victims of B-52 bomber crash

By Hanna Park, Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — A crew of military service members and government contractors were among the eight people killed when a B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly 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