{"id":13725,"date":"2011-10-26T01:04:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T06:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13725"},"modified":"2011-10-26T01:04:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T06:04:06","slug":"qf-4-crash-caused-by-control-malfunction-f-16-downed-by-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/qf-4-crash-caused-by-control-malfunction-f-16-downed-by-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"QF-4 Crash Caused by Control Malfunction, F-16 Downed by Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <em>Air Force Times<\/em>, the Air Force has reported that a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/08\/qf-4-crashes-in-new-mexico\/\">manned QF-4 crash in July<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/10\/air-force-glitches-brought-down-predator-qg-4-102311w\/\">caused by a flight control malfunction<\/a>.\u00a0 A stab actuator disconnected and caused an uncommanded, and uncontrollable, pitch up.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes the $2.4 million <!--more-->Vietnam-era aircraft was lost.\u00a0 It also includes a write up on the crash of a Predator in June.\u00a0 The small, unmanned prop-driven plane was valued at $4.4 million, or nearly twice the drone-duty F-4.<\/p>\n<p>In another story, the AF Times said a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/08\/f-16-crashes-pilot-ejects-in-wisconsin\/\">Wisconsin ANG F-16 lost in June<\/a> crashed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/10\/air-force-f16-crash-report-engine-failure-blamed-102011w\/\">due to an engine malfunction<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Air Force Times, the Air Force has reported that a manned QF-4 crash in July was caused by a flight control malfunction.\u00a0 A stab actuator disconnected and caused an uncommanded, and uncontrollable, pitch up. The article notes the $2.4 million<\/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":[58,134,186,5285,2,940,53,1833],"class_list":["post-13725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-air-force","tag-f-16","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-qf-4","tag-uav","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13725","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=13725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}