{"id":23584,"date":"2013-06-27T09:45:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T12:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=23584"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:23:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:23:30","slug":"f-16-crashes-at-luke-air-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/f-16-crashes-at-luke-air-force-base\/","title":{"rendered":"F-16 Crashes at Luke Air Force Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Update<\/strong><\/span><\/em>: Gen Mike Rothstein, the Luke AFB wing commander, indicated the F-16 may\u00a0have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20130628\/NEWS04\/306280002\">brought down by a bird strike<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Two pilots ejected safely when their F-16 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2013\/06\/26\/pilots-safe-after-f-16-fighter-jet-crashes-in-arizona\/\">crashed at Luke Air Force Base<\/a>, Arizona, last night.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The jet went down just before 7 p.m. in a desert area about 3 miles west of the airfield, said officials at the base.<\/p>\n<p>Both pilots suffered minor injuries, Sgt. Linda Rainey said. Their names weren&#8217;t immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>Glendale Fire Department officials said the two pilots were seen walking around after the crash and were taken to Luke Air Force Base Hospital for further evaluation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Luke is the primary training base for American F-16 pilots (the base also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luke.af.mil\/library\/factsheets\/factsheet.asp?id=5003\">hosts international F-16 training<\/a>), meaning the two pilots were likely instructor and student.<\/p>\n<p>Repeated at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/f-16-fighter-jet-crashes-in-arizona-both-pilots-ok-1.227791\">Stars and Stripes<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20130627\/NEWS\/306270001\">Air Force Times<\/a>.<\/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>Update: Gen Mike Rothstein, the Luke AFB wing commander, indicated the F-16 may\u00a0have been brought down by a bird strike. Two pilots ejected safely when their F-16 crashed at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, last night. The jet went down just before 7 p.m. in a desert area about 3 miles west of the airfield, said officials at the base. [&#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":[134,5285,4062,2],"class_list":["post-23584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-luke-afb","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23584","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=23584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}