Aircraft tracking data shows US flew B-52 bombers near Venezuela
Summary
We've been looking into why the US flew B-52 bombers near to the coast of Venezuela in what one expert told us was a "show of force"
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US bomber flights near Venezuela ‘designed to send message’
Joshua Cheetham
BBC Verify journalist
Earlier we reported that tracking data showed US Air Force Boeing B-52 bomber aircraft left their base in Louisiana on Wednesday and flew across the Caribbean before circling off the Venezuelan coast.
Nick Brown, director of Jane’s Defence Insight, says it’s “not usual” for planes like these to operate in the area.
The US Air Force “routinely conducts long-range, long-endurance training missions and patrols to keep the crew and aircraft fully mission capable,” Brown says.
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