{"id":303,"date":"2009-03-25T16:27:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T20:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:17:06","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:17:06","slug":"f-22a-crashes-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/25\/f-22a-crashes-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"F-22A Crashes in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As noted at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/US\/03\/25\/california.crash\/index.html\">variety<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,510588,00.html\">sources<\/a>, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123141390\">official<\/a> AF news outlet, an Air Force F-22A has crashed while performing a test mission near Edwards AFB, CA.\u00a0 The condition of the pilot has not been released.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/US\/03\/25\/california.crash\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,510588,00.html\">Fox<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwards.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123141481\">Edwards AFB<\/a> public affairs\u00a0now report that\u00a0the pilot was a Lockheed Martin civilian (Air Force veteran) who did not survive the crash:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lockheed Martin said the test pilot, David Cooley, 49, of Palmdale, California, joined the company in 2003 and was a 21-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends, amidst the tragic reminder of the danger of the fighter (and test) pilot profession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted at a variety of sources, including the official AF news outlet, an Air Force F-22A has crashed while performing a test mission near Edwards AFB, CA.\u00a0 The condition of the pilot has not been released. UPDATE: CNN,\u00a0Fox, and Edwards AFB public affairs\u00a0now report that\u00a0the pilot was a Lockheed Martin civilian (Air Force veteran) who did not survive the [&#8230;]<\/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-303","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\/303","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=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}