{"id":1155,"date":"2009-09-14T00:15:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T04:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:17:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:17:39","slug":"israeli-fighter-pilot-killed-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/14\/israeli-fighter-pilot-killed-in-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Fighter Pilot Killed in Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Various news outlets (including CNN <\/a>and Fox<\/a>) reported that Israeli Defense Force Lt. Assaf Ramon died in an F-16 crash on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0(The Lieutenant was posthumously promoted to Captain.)\u00a0 The Israel National News<\/a> reports speculation that sounds much like a G-LOC<\/a>.\u00a0 The aircraft was an F-16A, an older version of the American-made fighter; the crash appears to have occurred during his F-16 training, just a few months after he received his wings from basic pilot training.<\/p>\n

Ramon was reported as being either 20 or 21 years old, both of which are young by American standards.\u00a0 Based on entering college at 17 and accounting for a year-long pilot training, an American\u00a0F-16 pilot would likely be no younger than 22 when he first started his F-16 training.\u00a0 By contrast, some have said that the military service required of Israeli citizens values skill over college education; therefore, pilot training (and other advanced military training) may actually occur prior to higher education.<\/p>\n

As has also been widely reported, Ramon’s father was Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first astronaut<\/a>, who was killed when the Space Shuttle Columbia broke up on reentry in 2003. The elder Ramon also flew an F-16 himself, and was one of the initial cadre to stand up Israel’s F-16 forces after learning to fly the F-16 at Hill AFB, Utah.\u00a0 He was subsequently the youngest pilot in the\u00a08\u00a0F-16s that\u00a0bombed the Iraqi Osirak nuclear facility in 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Various news outlets (including CNN and Fox) reported that Israeli Defense Force Lt. Assaf Ramon died in an F-16 crash on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0(The Lieutenant was posthumously promoted to Captain.)\u00a0 The Israel National News reports speculation that sounds much like a G-LOC.\u00a0 The aircraft was an F-16A, an older version of the American-made fighter; the crash appears to have occurred during his […]<\/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":[13,52,2,21,32],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-iraq","tag-military","tag-nasa","tag-pilot-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","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=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}