{"id":18675,"date":"2012-07-23T00:41:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T03:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18675"},"modified":"2012-07-23T00:41:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T03:41:04","slug":"pilot-safe-after-usaf-f-16-crashes-in-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/23\/pilot-safe-after-usaf-f-16-crashes-in-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot Safe after USAF F-16 Crashes in Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US Air Force F-16 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misawa.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123310889\">crashed in the Pacific Ocean<\/a> on Sunday; the pilot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misawa.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123310893\">safely ejected<\/a>.\u00a0 It was apparently part of a flight from Japan to the United States &#8212; meaning it was far from home (and potentially land) when the pilot ejected.\u00a0 That may explain why he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misawa.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123310893\">spent 6 hours in the water<\/a> and was eventually picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/2012\/07\/22\/world\/asia\/22reuters-japan-f16-crash.html\">by a commercial &#8212; not military &#8212; vessel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With various controversies ongoing over crashing Ospreys and the presence of Marines, the US was quick to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misawa.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123310894\">praise the alliance with Japan<\/a> that aided in the pilot&#8217;s recovery.<\/p>\n<p>As with every other aircraft incident, the Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/pacific\/us-f-16-crashes-in-pacific-pilot-rescued-1.183602\">will investigate<\/a> to determine the cause over the next month or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US Air Force F-16 crashed in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday; the pilot safely ejected.\u00a0 It was apparently part of a flight from Japan to the United States &#8212; meaning it was far from home (and potentially land) when the pilot ejected.\u00a0 That may explain why he spent 6 hours in the water and was eventually picked up by [&#8230;]<\/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":[134,619,224,186,5285,1263,2],"class_list":["post-18675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-crash","tag-ejection","tag-f-16","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-japan","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18675","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=18675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}