{"id":30511,"date":"2014-12-04T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=30511"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:53:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:53:58","slug":"usaf-f-16-pilot-killed-in-crash-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/04\/usaf-f-16-pilot-killed-in-crash-in-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"USAF F-16 Pilot Killed in Crash in Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/releases\/release.aspx?releaseid=17059\">announced<\/a> Tuesday that Capt William\u00a0DuBois was killed when his F-16 crashed &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/air-force-pilot-killed-in-middle-east-crash-identified-1.316758\">in the Middle East<\/a>&#8221; in support of Operation <em>Inherent Resolve<\/em>.\u00a0 Officially, the crash was declared not combat related and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centcom.mil\/en\/news\/articles\/pilot-killed-in-f-16-crash-in-middle-east\">was said<\/a> not to have occurred in Iraq or Syria.\u00a0 CNN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/12\/01\/world\/meast\/us-fighter-jet-crashes\/\">reported<\/a> it occurred in Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>As with all such incidents, the Air Force will investigate the cause.\u00a0 The crash follows another recent fatal crash out of Tyndall AFB <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/10\/f-16-crashes-in-gulf-pilot-killed\/\">just last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2014\/12\/01\/us-air-force-pilot-killed-when-f-16-crashes-in-middle-east\/\">FoxNews<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/ArticleDisplay\/tabid\/223\/Article\/555169\/pilot-killed-in-middle-east-f-16-crash.aspx\">AF.mil<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n<!--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 Air Force announced Tuesday that Capt William\u00a0DuBois was killed when his F-16 crashed &#8220;in the Middle East&#8221; in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.\u00a0 Officially, the crash was declared not combat related and was said not to have occurred in Iraq or Syria.\u00a0 CNN reported it occurred in Jordan. As with all such incidents, the Air Force will investigate 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":[134,619,186,5285,52,3031,2,4957,4958,4886,4956],"class_list":["post-30511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-crash","tag-f-16","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-iraq","tag-jordan","tag-military","tag-operation-inherent-resolve","tag-syria","tag-tyndall-afb","tag-william-dubois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30511","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=30511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}