{"id":1064,"date":"2009-09-11T00:14:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T04:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:17:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:17:39","slug":"harrier-pilot-set-up-for-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/11\/harrier-pilot-set-up-for-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrier Pilot Set up for Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marines released the report of the AV-8B Harrier crash that occurred in North Carolina late\u00a0last year.\u00a0 With vague similarities to the F\/A-18 crash in San Diego, it appears that the pilot was poorly chosen, poorly prepared, and contributed to the crash that claimed his life.<\/p>\n<p>The report, as noted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2009\/09\/ap_marine_crash_cherry_point_091009\/\">Marine Times<\/a>, said <!--more-->the pilot hadn&#8217;t flown a Harrier in two months.\u00a0 He had a mechanical issue that caused him to return to base in deteriorating weather; he failed to adequately conduct the instrument flight required and crashed.<\/p>\n<p>The unit&#8217;s commander was relieved (as were many of the officers in the leadership following the Hornet crash in San Diego).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marines released the report of the AV-8B Harrier crash that occurred in North Carolina late\u00a0last year.\u00a0 With vague similarities to the F\/A-18 crash in San Diego, it appears that the pilot was poorly chosen, poorly prepared, and contributed to the crash that claimed his life. The report, as noted in the Marine Times, said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,2],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","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=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}