{"id":43083,"date":"2018-04-05T00:30:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T03:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=43083"},"modified":"2018-04-05T08:32:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T11:32:23","slug":"thunderbird-pilot-dies-in-crash-in-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/05\/thunderbird-pilot-dies-in-crash-in-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird Pilot Dies in Crash in Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US Air Force F-16 pilot who was a member of the Thunderbird demonstration team has died as a result of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1485025\/aircraft-accident-on-nevada-test-and-training-range\/\">crash<\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2018\/04\/05\/pilot-dies-in-f-16-crash-at-nellis-air-force-base-outside-las-vegas.html\">during [a] routine training<\/a>&#8221; flight:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds pilot was killed when his F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed over the Nevada Test and Training Range today at approximately 10:30 a.m. during a routine aerial demonstration training flight,\u201d the Wednesday statement said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The pilot was <!--more-->not yet identified. The crash is one of several over the past few days that have also claimed two Marine Corps aircraft, a CH-53E and an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=104961\">AV-8B Harrier<\/a>\u00a0in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/marine-corps\/harrier-pilot-ejects-during-takeoff-from-djibouti-airport-1.520274\">Djibouti<\/a>. The crew of the helicopter also perished.<\/p>\n<p>Aviation &#8212; and particularly military aviation &#8212; remains a dangerous career.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/pilot-killed-in-f-16-crash-in-nevada-3rd-military-aircraft-crash-in-2-days-1.520468\">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>A US Air Force F-16 pilot who was a member of the Thunderbird demonstration team has died as a result of a crash &#8220;during [a] routine training&#8221; flight: \u201cA U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds pilot was killed when his F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed over the Nevada Test and Training Range today at approximately 10:30 a.m. during a routine aerial demonstration training [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[186,5285,2,453],"class_list":["post-43083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-f-16","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-thunderbirds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43083","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=43083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43087,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43083\/revisions\/43087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}