{"id":33213,"date":"2015-07-29T00:30:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T03:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=33213"},"modified":"2016-11-24T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:54:00","slug":"ntsb-releases-preliminary-findings-in-f-16-midair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/29\/ntsb-releases-preliminary-findings-in-f-16-midair\/","title":{"rendered":"NTSB Releases Preliminary Findings in F-16 Midair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NTSB <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/article27857191.html\">released initial findings<\/a> (full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntsb.gov\/_layouts\/ntsb.aviation\/brief.aspx?ev_id=20150707X22207&amp;key=2\">NTSB report here<\/a>) regarding the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/07\/08\/f-16-collides-with-civilian-cessna-killing-two\/\">July 7th midair<\/a> between a US Air Force F-16 and a civilian Cessna 150.<\/p>\n<p>The F-16 pilot was apparently on a single ship instrument sortie, practicing approaches first at Myrtle Beach, then at Charleston AFB. The Cessna took off from a local field and was not in contact with Air Traffic Control, and he was not required to be. ATC called out the (unknown) Cessna <!--more-->as traffic, apparently approximately 50 seconds before the two collided. The F-16 continued to fly for 3 minutes, despite\u00a0incurring major structural damage,\u00a0prior to the F-16 pilot ejecting safely.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Repeated at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/ntsb-releases-preliminary-findings-of-f-16-cessna-collision-that-killed-two-in-sc-1.358797\">Stars and Stripes<\/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>The NTSB released initial findings (full NTSB report here) regarding the July 7th midair between a US Air Force F-16 and a civilian Cessna 150. The F-16 pilot was apparently on a single ship instrument sortie, practicing approaches first at Myrtle Beach, then at Charleston AFB. The Cessna took off from a local field and was not in contact with [&#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-33213","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\/33213","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=33213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}