{"id":17153,"date":"2012-04-09T00:30:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T03:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17153"},"modified":"2012-04-09T00:30:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T03:30:01","slug":"admiral-f-18-crash-outcome-defines-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/09\/admiral-f-18-crash-outcome-defines-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"Admiral: F-18 Crash Outcome Defines “Miracle”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Admiral John Harvey, the four-star admiral commanding US Fleet Forces Command, had an interesting characterization of the Friday F\/A-18D Hornet <\/em>crash<\/a> into an apartment complex in Virginia Beach:<\/p>\n

“I don’t speak for anybody’s religious beliefs, but the mayor and I both agreed that if you want to define a miracle, what happened here yesterday meets that definition for me,” Adm. John Harvey, the four-star head of the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, told reporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He also noted the many prayers<\/a> for the community:\u00a0 <\/p>\n

“I deeply regret that some in our community have lost their homes, and I, like many, pray for the well-being of all…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The two-man crew ejected from their stricken Hornet just prior to its impact in a multi-building apartment complex<\/a>.\u00a0 Amazingly, all residents are accounted for<\/a> in the “Good Friday miracle.”\u00a0 Barring the discovery of an unexpected guest, it appears there were no deaths and only a few minor injuries as a result of the massive fireball and burned buildings following the fighter’s impact.<\/p>\n

The jet was part of a training unit<\/a>; the front seat pilot was a student, while the rear cockpit pilot was an instructor.\u00a0 Like many military bases, Oceana Naval Air Station, from which the F\/A-18 came, has struggled with encroachment and the building of residential communities in its flight paths.<\/p>\n

Navy lawyers were already beginning the process for victims to lodge claims for property loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This crash follows the tragic F\/A-18 crash in San Diego in 2008<\/a> that claimed almost all the members of one family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Admiral John Harvey, the four-star admiral commanding US Fleet Forces Command, had an interesting characterization of the Friday F\/A-18D Hornet crash into an apartment complex in Virginia Beach: “I don’t speak for anybody’s religious beliefs, but the mayor and I both agreed that if you want to define a miracle, what happened here yesterday meets that definition for me,” Adm. […]<\/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":[619,224,283,5285,1793,1322,2,2668,36,3124,32,11,10],"class_list":["post-17153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-crash","tag-ejection","tag-fa-18d","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-hornet","tag-john-harvey","tag-military","tag-miracles","tag-navy","tag-oceana","tag-pilot-training","tag-prayer","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153","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=17153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}