{"id":6590,"date":"2010-07-30T00:35:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T06:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6590"},"modified":"2010-07-31T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T20:51:20","slug":"c-17-crash-claims-four-air-force-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/c-17-crash-claims-four-air-force-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"C-17 Crash Claims Four Air Force Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Updated<\/span><\/strong> with names of crew.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123215501\">Air Force announced<\/a> that a C-17 <em>Globemaster III<\/em> crashed shortly after takeoff from Elmendorf AFB, Alaska,\u00a0on Wednesday, killing the four crewmembers.\u00a0 There are indications the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/jul\/29\/4-killed-plane-crash-alaska-military-base\/\">crew was practicing<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2010\/07\/29\/Air-Force-cargo-plane-crashes-in-Alaska\/UPI-80221280403111\/\">upcoming Arctic Thunder airshow<\/a> this weekend.\u00a0 While\u00a0large aircraft occasionally have incidents on landing or on the ground, the catastrophic loss of a military cargo aircraft from a flight mishap is a relatively rare event.<\/p>\n<p>Elmendorf leaders have announced the 2010 Arctic Thunder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elmendorf.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123215606\">airshow will proceed<\/a> as planned.<\/p>\n<p>As is the common practice, the Air Force did not speculate and will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2010\/07\/28\/military-cargo-plane-crashes-elmendorf-air-force-base-word-casualties\/\">conduct a month-long investigation<\/a> to determine the cause.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: The Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123215784\">released the names<\/a> of those killed on the C-17:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maj. Michael Freyholtz<br \/>\nMaj. Aaron Malone<br \/>\nCapt. Jeffrey Hill<br \/>\nMaster Sgt. Thomas Cicardo<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated with names of crew. The Air Force announced that a C-17 Globemaster III crashed shortly after takeoff from Elmendorf AFB, Alaska,\u00a0on Wednesday, killing the four crewmembers.\u00a0 There are indications the crew was practicing for the upcoming Arctic Thunder airshow this weekend.\u00a0 While\u00a0large aircraft occasionally have incidents on landing or on the ground, the catastrophic loss of a military cargo [&#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":[13,834,835,832,619,833,2],"class_list":["post-6590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-alaska","tag-arctic-thunder","tag-c-17","tag-crash","tag-elmendorf-afb","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590","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=6590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}