{"id":6323,"date":"2023-08-26T18:24:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T18:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/26\/fighter-jet-crashes-near-san-diego-pilot-dead-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2023-08-26T18:24:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T18:24:46","slug":"fighter-jet-crashes-near-san-diego-pilot-dead-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/26\/fighter-jet-crashes-near-san-diego-pilot-dead-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighter Jet Crashes Near San Diego; Pilot Dead &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>San Diego: The pilot of a US Marine Corps F\/A-18 Hornet fighter jet that crashed on Thursday night near San Diego has been confirmed dead, according to a statement from the unit. The pilot was the only person aboard the aircraft, CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>Search and rescue teams sent out after the crash found the pilot at the scene and confirmed that he had been killed, the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing and Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina said in a statement, as per CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said: \u201cWith a heavy heart, our condolences go to the Marine\u2019s family during this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The service member\u2019s identity will not be released \u201cuntil 24 hours after all next-of-kin notifications have been completed,\u201d the Marines said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash site is on US government property in the vicinity of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, \u201cand there are no indications of damage to property on the ground,\u201d the Marines said earlier Friday.<\/p>\n<p>As per the Marines, an investigation into the crash has begun.<\/p>\n<p>The F\/A-18 Hornet is the nation\u2019s first all-weather fighter and attack aircraft, and is considered \u201cthe workhorse of Marine Corps tactical aviation,\u201d according to Naval Air Systems Command.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] San Diego: The pilot of a US Marine Corps F\/A-18 Hornet fighter jet that crashed on Thursday night near San Diego has been confirmed dead, according to a statement from the unit. The pilot was the only person aboard the aircraft, CNN reported. Search and rescue teams sent out after the crash found the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6325,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions\/6325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}