{"id":18166,"date":"2012-06-20T02:24:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T05:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18166"},"modified":"2012-06-20T02:24:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T05:24:15","slug":"missionaries-killed-in-zambia-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/20\/missionaries-killed-in-zambia-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Missionaries Killed in Zambia Plane Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missionary couple Jay and Katrina Erickson were killed in a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/Missions\/Default.aspx?id=1609800\">crash in Zambia<\/a> after working at a local hospital.\u00a0 Jay Erickson was reportedly the pilot, trained by Moody Bible Institute&#8217;s Moody Aviation.\u00a0 The aircraft was a 6-seat Cessna.<\/p>\n<p>The couple were in their 20s and had left their two young daughters at the hospital:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Their daughters, 2-year-old Marina and 1-year-old Coral, had stayed behind at the hospital. Katrina Erickson&#8217;s parents, who live in Wisconsin, are preparing to travel to Zambia with Jay Erickson&#8217;s mother to reunite with their granddaughters, said Pastor Ron Ulmer of Hillyard Baptist Church on Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While there are no further details, it remains true that mission aviation &#8212; arguably, even civil aviation &#8212; is a dangerous profession.\u00a0 Though they are largely unknown and under-appreciated, missionary aviators support missions around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missionary couple Jay and Katrina Erickson were killed in a recent crash in Zambia after working at a local hospital.\u00a0 Jay Erickson was reportedly the pilot, trained by Moody Bible Institute&#8217;s Moody Aviation.\u00a0 The aircraft was a 6-seat Cessna. The couple were in their 20s and had left their two young daughters at the hospital: Their daughters, 2-year-old Marina and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3350,3351,22,3353,3352],"class_list":["post-18166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missionary-aviation","tag-jay-erickson","tag-katrina-erickson","tag-missionary","tag-moody-aviation","tag-moody-bible-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18166","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=18166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}