{"id":39695,"date":"2019-06-11T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T09:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39695"},"modified":"2019-06-11T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T09:23:09","slug":"japan-f-35-fighter-crash-cause-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39695","title":{"rendered":"Japan F-35 fighter crash cause revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Tokyo (CNN)<\/cite>The sudden<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/09\/asia\/japan-f-35-stealth-fighter-missing-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> crash of a Japanese F-35 stealth fighter<\/a> into the Pacific Ocean in April this year was likely caused by the &#8220;spatial disorientation&#8221; of its pilot, the country&#8217;s defense minister said Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Japan Air Self-Defense Force jet, among the world&#8217;s most sophisticated aircraft, disappeared from radar while on a training mission with three other F-35s off northern Japan on April 9. There was no indication from the jet&#8217;s pilot, Maj. Akinori Hosomi, of any problems with the aircraft before contact was lost.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Ministry of Defense said Monday that Hosomi, a 41-year-old with 3,200 hours of flight experience, essentially flew the stealth fighter straight into the ocean during the night training mission.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo (CNN)The sudden crash of a Japanese F-35 stealth fighter into the Pacific Ocean in April this year was likely caused by the &#8220;spatial disorientation&#8221; of its pilot, the country&#8217;s defense minister said Monday.The Japan Air Self-Defense Force jet, among the world&#8217;s most sophisticated aircraft, disappeared from radar while on a training mission with three&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}