{"id":10261,"date":"2011-03-22T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=10261"},"modified":"2011-03-22T08:00:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T13:00:51","slug":"us-fighter-downed-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/us-fighter-downed-in-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"US Fighter Downed in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the US Air Force, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123247947\">F-15E <em>Strike Eagle <\/em>went down in Libya<\/a> due to an &#8220;equipment malfunction.&#8221;\u00a0 Both crewmembers are &#8220;back in US hands&#8221; after the pilot was retrieved by US Marines and the WSO was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2011\/03\/22\/jet-reportedly-crash-lands-libya-crew-believed-safe\/\">&#8220;recovered&#8221; by Libyan rebels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffTwo crew members ejected from their U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle when the aircraft experienced equipment malfunction over northeast, Libya, March 21, at approximately 10:30 p.m. CET.<\/p>\n<p>Both crew members ejected and are safe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The press release also revealed that the aircraft was flying out of Aviano Air Base in Italy, home to other American units including an F-16 fighter unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the US Air Force, an F-15E Strike Eagle went down in Libya due to an &#8220;equipment malfunction.&#8221;\u00a0 Both crewmembers are &#8220;back in US hands&#8221; after the pilot was retrieved by US Marines and the WSO was &#8220;recovered&#8221; by Libyan rebels. \ufeff\ufeff\ufeffTwo crew members ejected from their U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle when the aircraft experienced equipment malfunction [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,13,535,1589,2,1596],"class_list":["post-10261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-f-15e","tag-libya","tag-military","tag-odyssey-dawn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}