{"id":27196,"date":"2013-12-02T01:29:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T04:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=27196"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:17:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:17:43","slug":"senators-call-for-fighter-pilot-ejection-seat-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/02\/senators-call-for-fighter-pilot-ejection-seat-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Call for Fighter Pilot Ejection Seat Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators Mark Udall (D-Co) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20131129\/NEWS05\/311290014\">have proposed<\/a> an amendment to the yet-to-be-approved 2014 National Defense Authorization Act that would require the Air Force to review safety for its ejection seats:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under the amendment, the Air Force also must analyze how ejection seats protect the head, neck and spinal cord during ejection; analyze any initiatives currently looking at making the ejection process safer; and update Congress on the status of any testing or qualifications on upgraded ejection seats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article notes <!--more-->this follows the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/05\/two-investigations-blame-pilot-error-for-fatal-crashes\/\">release of the Air Force accident report<\/a> saying Capt Lucas Gruenther was killed during the ejection from his F-16 off the coast of Italy.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Senator Udall seemed to clarify that the focus was on changes that have occurred since the seats were first fielded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Udall spokesman James Owens said&#8230;\u201cThe Aviano incident has raised concerns about whether the current seats have adequate protections for pilots wearing advanced helmets and other helmet-mounted equipment that might not have been in use when the seats were designed,\u201d Owens said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\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>Senators Mark Udall (D-Co) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo) have proposed an amendment to the yet-to-be-approved 2014 National Defense Authorization Act that would require the Air Force to review safety for its ejection seats: Under the amendment, the Air Force also must analyze how ejection seats protect the head, neck and spinal cord during ejection; analyze any initiatives currently looking at [&#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":[134,78,224,5285,3849,4460,2,2595,4461],"class_list":["post-27196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-congress","tag-ejection","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-lucas-gruenther","tag-mark-udall","tag-military","tag-national-defense-authorization-act","tag-roy-blunt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27196","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=27196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}