{"id":28426,"date":"2014-03-03T01:48:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T04:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=28426"},"modified":"2016-09-26T12:14:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:14:42","slug":"fa-18c-crashes-supporting-top-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/03\/fa-18c-crashes-supporting-top-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"F\/A-18C Crashes Supporting Top Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Update<\/strong><\/span>: The Navy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=79435\">announced<\/a> the pilot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/article\/20140303\/NEWS\/303030010\">died in the crash<\/a>.\u00a0 The name of the pilot has been withheld until 24 hours after notification of next-of-kin.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A US Marine Corps F\/A-18C Hornet crashed on Saturday while supporting the Naval Strike and Warfare Center &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; course.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy has issued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=79435\">several releases<\/a> since then on the follow-up:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Initial reports from the scene indicate the aircraft is a total loss. It took Navy personnel several hours to reach the crash site as it was located in remote, rugged, mountainous terrain&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reports say they are &#8220;continuing to search&#8221; for the pilot. Having located the aircraft, that is not a good omen.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/article\/20140302\/NEWS\/303020014\">Marine Corps Times<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/03\/01\/us\/nevada-navy-jet-crash\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Latest-News-Wires\/2014\/0303\/Navy-jet-crash-F-A-18C-goes-down-in-Nevada-video\">Christian Science Monitor<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/marine-corps\/pilot-dead-after-marine-jet-crashes-in-nevada-1.270840\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/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: The Navy announced the pilot died in the crash.\u00a0 The name of the pilot has been withheld until 24 hours after notification of next-of-kin. A US Marine Corps F\/A-18C Hornet crashed on Saturday while supporting the Naval Strike and Warfare Center &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; course. The Navy has issued several releases since then on the follow-up: Initial reports from 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":[619,1832,841,5285,1793,149,2,36,4640],"class_list":["post-28426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-crash","tag-eject","tag-fa-18","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-hornet","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-topgun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28426","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=28426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}