{"id":41763,"date":"2017-09-11T00:20:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T03:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=41763"},"modified":"2017-09-12T22:41:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T01:41:03","slug":"air-force-pilot-dies-in-crash-of-classified-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/11\/air-force-pilot-dies-in-crash-of-classified-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Pilot Dies in Crash of Classified Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Wednesday <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2017\/09\/11\/two-a-10s-crash-in-nevada\/\">crash of two A-10s<\/a> made news last <em>Thursday,<\/em> the military revealed on <em>Friday<\/em> that another aircraft had crashed on <em>Tuesday.<\/em> US Air Force LtCol Eric Schultz died in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/air-force-pilot-dies-after-crash-at-nevada-test-and-training-range-1.486830\">crash of an &#8220;unspecified&#8221; aircraft<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lt. Col. Eric Schultz was flying an unspecified aircraft at about 6 p.m. over the Nevada Test and Training Range, approximately 100 miles northwest of Nellis Air Force Base, a spokeswoman at the air base said Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Information about the type of aircraft involved is classified and not releasable,&#8221; Maj. Christina Sukach, chief of public affairs&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The tragic death of Doc and the impact on his family &#8212; his wife and five kids &#8212; has been overshadowed by the secrecy of the news report. The Aviationist <a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2017\/09\/09\/no-it-wasnt-an-f-35-so-what-did-crash-near-nellis-here-are-some-theories\/\">speculated<\/a> on the existence <!--more-->of US Air Force-owned Su-27s and not-so-retired F-117s, including purported photographs taken last year.<\/p>\n<p>Air Force Chief of Staff Gen David Goldfein went so far as to categorically say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2017\/09\/08\/airman-dies-another-plane-crash-nevada-training-range.html\">it was not an F-35<\/a>, which Doc had previously flown.<\/p>\n<p>While the information might have given some amount of closure, it probably doesn&#8217;t matter as much to his family. They just know a husband and father isn&#8217;t coming home.<\/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>After the Wednesday crash of two A-10s made news last Thursday, the military revealed on Friday that another aircraft had crashed on Tuesday. US Air Force LtCol Eric Schultz died in the crash of an &#8220;unspecified&#8221; aircraft: Lt. Col. Eric Schultz was flying an unspecified aircraft at about 6 p.m. over the Nevada Test and Training Range, approximately 100 miles [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,6390,732,5597,6389,118,5285,2],"class_list":["post-41763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-christina-sukach","tag-classified","tag-david-goldfein","tag-eric-schultz","tag-f-35","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41763","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=41763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}