{"id":22069,"date":"2013-04-08T12:56:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T15:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=22069"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:39:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:39:56","slug":"super-hornet-crashes-in-mideast-crew-ejects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/08\/super-hornet-crashes-in-mideast-crew-ejects\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Hornet Crashes in Mideast, Crew Ejects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=73223\">reported<\/a> an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/aircraft.htm#F-18\">F\/A-18F <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/aircraft.htm#F-18\">Super Hornet<\/a> <\/em>crashed while operating off the USS <em>Dwight D. Eisenhower <\/em>in the North Arabian Sea:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Search and Rescue (SAR) swimmers from an SH-60F of HS-5 &#8220;Night Dippers&#8221; recovered the two aircrew and safely delivered them back to the carrier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unlike Air Force reports, which withhold details until a month-long investigation is completed, the initial Navy release speculated as to the cause of the crash:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The two aircrew, from VFA-103 &#8220;Jolly Rogers&#8221; based in Virginia Beach, Va., safely ejected from their jet when it incurred an engine failure at 12:20 p.m. local time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In case you were wondering, the F\/A-18 has <strong><em>two <\/em><\/strong>engines.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy reported an F\/A-18F Super Hornet crashed while operating off the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the North Arabian Sea: Search and Rescue (SAR) swimmers from an SH-60F of HS-5 &#8220;Night Dippers&#8221; recovered the two aircrew and safely delivered them back to the carrier. Unlike Air Force reports, which withhold details until a month-long investigation is completed, the [&#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":[13,1953,5285,2,304],"class_list":["post-22069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-dwight-eisenhower","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-super-hornet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22069","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=22069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}