Dong Yun Yoon’s family was killed when an F-18 crashed into his home near Miramar.\u00a0 His reaction brought national pity, when he asked that people not blame the pilot, one of “the treasures of our country,” but pray for him.<\/p>\n
News reports<\/a> now indicate<\/a> that the Marines have fired the commander, maintenance officer, operations officer, and duty officer of the squadron; nine others were also punished as a result of the crash, which has been described as “avoidable.”\u00a0 There are not yet any indications that the pilot was punished;\u00a0he was criticized for not properly referencing his checklist, but also credited for staying with the aircraft well after he should have ejected in an attempt to steer the aircraft to a nearby canyon.<\/p>\n Contributing to the\u00a0death of innocents–but surviving oneself–is one of the greatest fears a pilot can face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dong Yun Yoon’s family was killed when an F-18 crashed into his home near Miramar.\u00a0 His reaction brought national pity, when he asked that people not blame the pilot, one of “the treasures of our country,” but pray for him. News reports now indicate that the Marines have fired the commander, maintenance officer, operations officer, and duty officer of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","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=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}