{"id":33084,"date":"2015-07-08T00:15:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T03:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=33084"},"modified":"2016-11-24T22:57:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:57:25","slug":"f-16-collides-with-civilian-cessna-killing-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/f-16-collides-with-civilian-cessna-killing-two\/","title":{"rendered":"F-16 Collides with Civilian Cessna, Killing Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update: An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/plane-collision-marks-2nd-fatal-tragedy-family-week-n388996\">Associated Press article<\/a> adds additional information, indicating the F-16 was single-ship, operating under ATC control practicing instrument approaches:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the time of the collision, Maj. Johnson was flying solo, practicing instrument approaches to a military base and was communicating with Charleston air traffic controllers, according to Col. Stephen Jost, commander of the 20th Fighter Squadron at Shaw Air Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>Jost said he thought it was overcast at the time of the collision, but he was not aware of any weather-related problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaw.af.mil\/\">Shaw AFB<\/a>-based F-16 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/ArticleDisplay\/tabid\/223\/Article\/607174\/f-16-aircraft-accident-near-charleston.aspx\">collided with<\/a> a civilian Cessna in South Carolina, resulting in the ejection of the F-16 pilot and the deaths of the two people on board the General Aviation aircraft.\u00a0 Using their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/20FighterWing?fref=nf\">Facebook page<\/a>, the base <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/20FighterWing\/posts\/957973774222812\">announced<\/a>:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pilot of the 20th Fighter Wing F-16CM Fighting Falcon who was involved in a mid-air collision today north of Charleston is Major Aaron Johnson from the 55th Fighter Squadron attached to Shaw.<\/p>\n<p>Major Johnson, who survived the collision by ejecting from his fighter, has been taken to Joint Base Charleston&#8217;s medical clinic for examination and treatment if necessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The most recent announcement indicated the NTSB, rather than the Air Force, would lead the investigation, as is often the case when the deaths are civilian rather than military.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also reported at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2015\/07\/07\/officials-f-16-small-plane-collide-in-midair-over-south-carolina\/\">FoxNews<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/2015\/0707\/Two-dead-after-F-16-collides-with-civilian-aircraft-over-S.-Carolina\">Christian Science Monitor<\/a>.<\/span><\/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: An Associated Press article adds additional information, indicating the F-16 was single-ship, operating under ATC control practicing instrument approaches: At the time of the collision, Maj. Johnson was flying solo, practicing instrument approaches to a military base and was communicating with Charleston air traffic controllers, according to Col. Stephen Jost, commander of the 20th Fighter Squadron at Shaw Air [&#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":[5240,134,3005,186,5285,2,5241,1701],"class_list":["post-33084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aaron-johnson","tag-air-force","tag-cessna","tag-f-16","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-ntsb","tag-shaw-air-force-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33084","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=33084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}