{"id":6449,"date":"2020-05-15T22:41:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T19:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2023-07-11T10:31:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T07:31:51","slug":"us-air-force-f-22-raptor-stealth-fighter-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/us-air-force-f-22-raptor-stealth-fighter-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighter crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pilot ejects safely as F-22 Raptor crashes in Florida<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighter from Eglin Air Force Base crashed in Florida on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot safely ejected and was transported to the 96th Medical Group hospital on Eglin for evaluation and observation. He is currently reported to be stable.<\/p>\n<p>The F-22 from the 43rd Fighter Squadron, &#8220;part of the 325th Fighter Wing, crashed at approximately 9:15 a.m. this morning&#8221; an <span style=\"color: #a80000;\"><a style=\"color: #a80000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eglin.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/2188314\/f-22-crashes-on-eglin-range\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official statement<\/a><\/span> said. The location of the accident was 12 miles northeast of Eglin main base on the test and training range. No loss of life or civilian property was reported.<\/p>\n<p>The statement added that a board of officers will investigate the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The F-22 is considered one of the world&#8217;s most advanced stealth fighter jets. The U.S. military has nearly 180 of these fighter aircraft in its inventory.<\/p>\n<p>Production of F-22 aircraft in the United States has been discontinued a decade ago and replaced by fifth-generation F-35 aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilot ejects safely as F-22 Raptor crashes in Florida A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,125],"tags":[227,256,216,6,286,7,240],"class_list":["post-6449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-crash","tag-defense","tag-fighter-jet","tag-u-s","tag-usaf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Lockheed-Martin-F-22-Raptor.jpg?fit=690%2C390&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1G1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16453,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions\/16453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}