{"id":29806,"date":"2014-08-29T00:30:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T03:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=29806"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:17:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:17:02","slug":"f-15c-crashes-in-virginia-search-on-for-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/29\/f-15c-crashes-in-virginia-search-on-for-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"F-15C Crashes in Virginia, Search on for Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Update<\/strong><\/span>: The Massachusetts National Guard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=123039\">identified<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20140829\/NEWS\/308290080\">fallen pilot<\/a> as Lt. Col. Morris &#8220;Moose&#8221; Fontenot, Jr., a former Kadena squadron commander and 1996 graduate of the US Air Force Academy.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>An F-15C Eagle from the Massachusetts Air National Guard 104th Fighter Wing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=123024\">crashed<\/a> near Deerfield, Virginia, Wednesday morning. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=123028\">search was launched<\/a> for the pilot as one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/article\/20140827\/NEWS\/308270074\">report<\/a> of a successful ejection was unconfirmed.\u00a0 On Thursday, the pilot was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20140828\/NEWS\/308280074\">confirmed killed<\/a>.\u00a0 His name was withheld.<\/p>\n<p>The flight was reportedly a benign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20140827\/NEWS02\/308270095\">ferry flight<\/a> to depot for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/08\/27\/military-jet-crashes-in-virginia\/\">an upgrade<\/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: The Massachusetts National Guard identified the fallen pilot as Lt. Col. Morris &#8220;Moose&#8221; Fontenot, Jr., a former Kadena squadron commander and 1996 graduate of the US Air Force Academy. An F-15C Eagle from the Massachusetts Air National Guard 104th Fighter Wing crashed near Deerfield, Virginia, Wednesday morning.<\/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":[648,619,224,222,5285,3147,2],"class_list":["post-29806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-national-guard","tag-crash","tag-ejection","tag-f-15","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-massachusetts","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29806","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=29806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}