{"id":632158,"date":"2024-01-31T09:32:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T04:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=632158"},"modified":"2024-01-31T11:08:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T05:38:24","slug":"us-f-16-fighter-jet-crashes-in-south-korean-sea-pilot-ejects-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-f-16-fighter-jet-crashes-in-south-korean-sea-pilot-ejects-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"US F-16 fighter jet crashes in South Korean sea, pilot ejects safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US Air Force pilot safely ejected from an F-16 fighter jet that crashed into waters off South Korea&#8217;s southwestern coast on Wednesday, in the second crash of the aircraft in less than two months. <\/p>\n<p>The unidentified pilot was conscious and was transported to a medical facility for assessment, the US 8th Fighter Wing said in a statement. It said it closely worked with US and South Korean mission partners to recover the pilot, who experienced an unspecified in-flight emergency and ejected before the plane crashed into sea near the port city of Gunsan. The cause of the crash was being investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US Air Force pilot safely ejected from an F-16 fighter jet that crashed into waters off South Korea&#8217;s southwestern coast on Wednesday, in the second crash of the aircraft in less than two months. The unidentified pilot was conscious and was transported to a medical facility for assessment, the US 8th Fighter Wing said in a statement. It said it closely worked with US and South Korean mission partners to recover the pilot, who experienced an unspecified in-flight emergency and ejected before the plane crashed into sea near the port city of Gunsan. The cause of the crash was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}