{"id":636,"date":"2014-11-07T23:16:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T21:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2014-11-07T23:16:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T21:16:26","slug":"pilots-remains-recovered-in-gulf-after-f-16-crash-u-s-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Pilot\u2019s remains recovered in Gulf after F-16 crash: U.S. Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>U.S. Air Force officials say they have recovered the remains of an F-16 fighter jet pilot from the Gulf of Mexico after a crash earlier in the day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_637\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/USAF-F-16-Crash-061114.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-637\" class=\"size-full wp-image-637\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/USAF-F-16-Crash-061114.jpg\" alt=\"Pilot Killed: U.S. Air Force F-16 Crashes in Gulf of Mexico (Photo by Shutterstock)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/USAF-F-16-Crash-061114.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/USAF-F-16-Crash-061114-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pilot Killed: U.S. Air Force F-16 Crashes in Gulf of Mexico (Photo by Shutterstock)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A news release Thursday night from Tyndall Air Force Base says efforts will now shift to collecting evidence to determine the cause of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The base says the airman won\u2019t be immediately identified, pending notification of family. No further details were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>An earlier statement said the jet was on a routine training mission over the Gulf on Thursday morning when the base in the Florida Panhandle lost contact with the<\/p>\n<p>Source: TYNDALL U.S. AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. \u2014 \u00a0By Associated Press,\u00a0November 6, 2014 (<a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/11\/06\/f-16-fighter-jet-believed-to-crash-in-gulf-of-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\">nypost.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Air Force officials say they have recovered the remains of an F-16 fighter jet pilot from the Gulf of Mexico after a crash earlier in the day. A news release Thursday night from&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[186,496,497,84,412,97],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}