{"id":17539,"date":"2012-04-27T00:45:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T03:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17539"},"modified":"2012-04-27T00:15:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T03:15:45","slug":"us-f-16-pilots-engage-fly-migs-mig-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/27\/us-f-16-pilots-engage-fly-migs-mig-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"US F-16 Pilots Engage, Fly MiGs, MiG Crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fighter pilots from two Aviano-based F-16 squadrons got a unique <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123299605\">opportunity to exchange flights<\/a> with pilots in the Bulgarian Air Force &#8212; which flies MiG-21s and MiG-29s.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise was cut short when a MiG-29 crashed <!--more-->yesterday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pilots from the 555th and 510th Fighter Squadrons based out of Aviano Air Base, Italy, have been given a rare opportunity to train and share experiences with Bulgarian air force MiG-21 and MiG-29 pilots during their deployment here in support of Thracian Star 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least one report indicated both pilots of the crashed jet &#8212; who successfully ejected &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novinite.com\/view_news.php?id=138833\">were Bulgarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The two Bulgarian pilots who bailed out before their MiG 29 fighter jet crashed during the Thracian Star 2012 exercise of the Bulgarian and US Air Forces are in a good condition, Bulgaria&#8217;s Defense Minister Anyu Angelov announced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another website has an <a href=\"http:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2012\/04\/26\/mig-29-crash\/\">extensive set of photos<\/a> that appear to show a significant engine or tail fire on the doomed MiG.<\/p>\n<p>Does that count as a MiG kill?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fighter pilots from two Aviano-based F-16 squadrons got a unique opportunity to exchange flights with pilots in the Bulgarian Air Force &#8212; which flies MiG-21s and MiG-29s. The exercise was cut short when a MiG-29 crashed<\/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":[1630,3205,186,5285,907,3203,2,3204],"class_list":["post-17539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aviano-air-base","tag-bulgaria","tag-f-16","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-mig-21","tag-mig-29","tag-military","tag-thracian-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17539","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=17539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}