{"id":29890,"date":"2014-09-15T00:30:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T03:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=29890"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:14:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:14:03","slug":"two-fa-18s-lost-at-sea-one-pilot-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/15\/two-fa-18s-lost-at-sea-one-pilot-recovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Two F\/A-18s Lost at Sea, One Pilot Recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=83231\">reported<\/a> two F\/A-18Cs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=83245\">crashed<\/a> while flying from the USS <em>Carl Vinson<\/em> in the Pacific.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two F\/A-18 Hornets from Carrier Air Wing 17 embarked on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) crashed at 5:40 p.m. local time, today, while operating at sea in the western Pacific Ocean.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The F\/A-18C is the single-seat version of the legacy Hornet. One pilot was &#8220;rapidly located&#8221; while a search was conducted for the second.\u00a0 The search was eventually\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=123157\">suspended<\/a>\u00a0and the pilot, 26-year old Lt. Nathan Poloski, was\u00a0declared <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=83274\">presumed dead<\/a>.\u00a0 The aircraft are believed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/one-pilot-missing-one-stable-after-2-f-a-18-hornets-crash-in-pacific-1.302695\">have collided<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/article\/20140912\/NEWS\/309120043\">Military Times<\/a>\u00a0(and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/article\/20140914\/NEWS\/309140043\">updated<\/a>).<\/span><!--more--><\/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>The US Navy reported two F\/A-18Cs crashed while flying from the USS Carl Vinson in the Pacific. Two F\/A-18 Hornets from Carrier Air Wing 17 embarked on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) crashed at 5:40 p.m. local time, today, while operating at sea in the western Pacific Ocean. The F\/A-18C is the single-seat version of the legacy [&#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":[1699,619,224,841,5285,2,36],"class_list":["post-29890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-carl-vinson","tag-crash","tag-ejection","tag-fa-18","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29890","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=29890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}