{"id":36638,"date":"2016-09-21T00:15:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T03:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=36638"},"modified":"2016-09-22T01:10:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T04:10:33","slug":"one-survivor-after-two-pilots-eject-from-u-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/one-survivor-after-two-pilots-eject-from-u-2\/","title":{"rendered":"One Survivor after Two Pilots Eject from U-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/ArticleDisplay\/tabid\/223\/Article\/950076\/two-pilots-eject-as-u-2-crashes-in-california.aspx\">announced<\/a> that a U-2 <em>Dragon Lady<\/em> crashed yesterday after its crew of two ejected. One pilot did not survive:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The aircraft was assigned to 1st Reconnaissance Squadron at Beale Air\u00a0Force Base, and was on a training mission. Two pilots were onboard and\u00a0ejected the aircraft.\u00a0 One pilot is confirmed deceased, while the\u00a0other sustained injuries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The U-2 is technically a single-place airplane.\u00a0 There were 5\u00a0aircraft <!--more-->modified for training that have a second cockpit added in a &#8220;hump&#8221; behind the primary seat, and they were designated the TU-2.<\/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 Air Force announced that a U-2 Dragon Lady crashed yesterday after its crew of two ejected. One pilot did not survive: The aircraft was assigned to 1st Reconnaissance Squadron at Beale Air\u00a0Force Base, and was on a training mission. Two pilots were onboard and\u00a0ejected the aircraft.\u00a0 One pilot is confirmed deceased, while the\u00a0other sustained injuries. The U-2 is [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,2790,619,224,5285,2,2657],"class_list":["post-36638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-beale-afb","tag-crash","tag-ejection","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-u-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36638","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=36638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}