{"id":1529,"date":"2009-10-16T20:18:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T03:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:17:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:17:37","slug":"f-16s-collide-pilot-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/16\/f-16s-collide-pilot-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"F-16s Collide, Pilot Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Updated<\/span><\/strong><em>: Information and photos of the pilots are available from a <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/cnn-news\/21312899\/detail.html\"><em>local news source<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123173012\">Air Force announced<\/a> that two F-16CJs from Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, had collided over the Atlantic Coast during night training on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>One, piloted by Capt. Lee Bryant,\u00a0managed to land at\u00a0Charleston AFB.\u00a0 The other, piloted by Captain Nicholas Giglio, is unaccounted for, and Giglio is reported missing.<\/p>\n<p>Coast Guard vessels conducting rescue operations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123173189\">found debris<\/a> believed to be from the second aircraft.\u00a0 Regrettably, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2009\/10\/ap_f16_collision_101609\/\">absence of an emergency beacon<\/a>&#8211;which normally transmits automatically after an ejection&#8211;increases the likelihood that Giglio went down with his aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: Information and photos of the pilots are available from a local news source. The Air Force announced that two F-16CJs from Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, had collided over the Atlantic Coast during night training on Thursday. One, piloted by Capt. Lee Bryant,\u00a0managed to land at\u00a0Charleston AFB.\u00a0 The other, piloted by Captain Nicholas Giglio, is unaccounted for, and [&#8230;]<\/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":[13,2,32],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-military","tag-pilot-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","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=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}