{"id":11672,"date":"2020-06-15T20:32:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T17:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/uk-coastguard-locates-wreckage-of-u-s-fighter-plane-in-north-sea\/11672\/"},"modified":"2020-06-15T20:32:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T17:32:55","slug":"uk-coastguard-locates-wreckage-of-u-s-fighter-plane-in-north-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/uk-coastguard-locates-wreckage-of-u-s-fighter-plane-in-north-sea\/11672\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Coastguard Locates Wreckage of U.S. Fighter Plane in North Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, June 15 (Reuters) \u2013 British coastguards have located the wreckage of a U.S. fighter plane that crashed into the North Sea off the coast of northeast England on Monday but the pilot is still missing, the U.S. Air Force said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The F-15C Eagle from the 48th Fighter Wing, which was on a routine training mission, crashed at around 0940 local time (0840 GMT). Only the pilot was on board.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSearch efforts by Her Majesty\u2019s Coastguard have located wreckage from the downed F-15C Eagle and recovery efforts are underway. The pilot is still missing, and search and rescue efforts continue,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The aircraft was from RAF Lakenheath, the largest U.S. Air Force-operated base in England and the only U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) F-15 fighter wing. It is located about 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In 2014, a U.S. military helicopter crashed on the coast of eastern England, killing all four crew on board. (Reporting by Kate Holton, David Milliken, William James and Michael Holden; editing by Estelle Shirbon)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, June 15 (Reuters) \u2013 British coastguards have located the wreckage of a U.S. fighter plane that crashed into the North Sea off the coast of northeast England on Monday but the pilot is still missing, the U.S. Air Force said in a statement. The F-15C Eagle from the 48th Fighter Wing, which was on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[3424,6865,7673,1416,7675,997,7674],"class_list":["post-11672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-coastguard","tag-fighter","tag-locates","tag-north","tag-plane","tag-sea","tag-wreckage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/11673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}