{"id":14831,"date":"2011-12-20T02:05:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T05:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14831"},"modified":"2011-12-20T02:16:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T05:16:17","slug":"fighter-downed-by-weight-imbalance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/fighter-downed-by-weight-imbalance\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighter Downed by Weight Imbalance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Stars and Stripes <\/em>reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/us-fighter-downed-in-libya\/\">F-15E <em>Strike Eagle <\/em>that crashed in March in Libya<\/a> was brought down <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/investigation-weight-imbalance-a-factor-in-libya-f-15-crash-1.163490\">due to a weight imbalance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Air Force investigation into what caused the crash of an F-15E Strike Eagle during a night combat operation over Libya last March has concluded that a weight imbalance was a major factor&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The situation deteriorated <!--more-->rapidly after the pilot dropped his bomb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe dropped it and was getting out of there,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cHalfway into the maneuver is when he went into the spin.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The aircraft never recovered, and the crew ejected.\u00a0 The pilot was recovered by Marines while the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/12\/air-force-libya-f-15-crash-balance-maneuver-contributed-121511w\/\">WSO was sheltered by rebels<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars and Stripes reports the F-15E Strike Eagle that crashed in March in Libya was brought down due to a weight imbalance. An Air Force investigation into what caused the crash of an F-15E Strike Eagle during a night combat operation over Libya last March has concluded that a weight imbalance was a major factor&#8230; The situation deteriorated<\/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-14831","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\/14831","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=14831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}