{"id":56510,"date":"2018-04-05T08:38:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=56510"},"modified":"2018-04-05T08:38:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:38:29","slug":"u-s-air-force-thunderbirds-pilot-killed-when-f-16-crashes-during-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=56510","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds Pilot Killed When F-16 Crashes During Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nellis Air Force Base, NV&#8230;A U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds pilot was killed when his F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed over the Nevada Test and Training Range April 4, 2018, at approximately 10:30 a.m. during a routine aerial demonstration training flight. The identity of the pilot is being withheld for 24-hours pending next of kin notification. An investigation is being conducted into the cause of the mishap.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/18813186_10155373655114246_1238920228212124324_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/18813186_10155373655114246_1238920228212124324_n.jpg 480w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/18813186_10155373655114246_1238920228212124324_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/18813186_10155373655114246_1238920228212124324_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/18813186_10155373655114246_1238920228212124324_n-30x30.jpg 30w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/18813186_10155373655114246_1238920228212124324_n-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s participation at March Air Reserve Base\u2019s \u201cThe March Field Air and Space Expo\u201d has been cancelled. It is unknown how this accident will impact the remainder of the 2018 Thunderbirds season.<\/p>\n<p>More information will be provided as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nellis Air Force Base, NV&#8230;A U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds pilot was killed when his F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed over the Nevada Test and Training Range April 4, 2018, at approximately 10:30 a.m. during a routine aerial demonstration training flight. The identity of the pilot is being withheld for 24-hours pending next of kin notification. An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-obituaries","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/18813186_10155373655114246_1238920228212124324_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}