{"id":76995,"date":"2018-01-07T09:30:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T14:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76995"},"modified":"2018-01-07T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T14:20:11","slug":"crashed-c-2a-discovered-in-philippine-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76995","title":{"rendered":"Crashed C-2A discovered in Philippine Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76103\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76103\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C-2A-Greyhound-466x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C-2A-Greyhound-466x333.jpg 466w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C-2A-Greyhound-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C-2A-Greyhound.jpg 657w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Jonp sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2018\/01\/07\/navy-plane-that-crashed-in-philippine-sea-located-deep-in-pacific.html\">Fox News<\/a> which reports that the Navy C-2A aircraft which crashed last month claiming the lives of Lt. Steven Combs, originally of Massachusetts, Aviation Boatswain\u2019s Mate (Equipment) Airman Matthew Chialastri of Louisiana, and Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Apprentice Bryan Grosso of Florida has been discovered in the Philippine Sea at about 18,000 feet below the surface;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A contracted salvage vessel located the aircraft using a pinger locator that homed in on the crashed plane\u2019s emergency signal.<\/p>\n<p>The focus now shifts to salvaging the plane from what would be a record-setting depth for such an effort, the Navy said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite very challenging conditions, every effort will be made to recover the aircraft and our fallen sailors,&#8221; the Navy said, adding that poor weather caused the initial mission to be postponed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The cause of the crash is still being investigated. Eight sailors were rescued from the wreck due to the efforts of the pilot, Lt. Steven Combs, who the Navy has called a hero because of his actions during the tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonp sends us a link to Fox News which reports that the Navy C-2A aircraft which &hellip; <a title=\"Crashed C-2A discovered in Philippine Sea\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76995\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crashed C-2A discovered in Philippine Sea<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}