{"id":589867,"date":"2026-05-18T02:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589867\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T02:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:57:08","slug":"us-navy-fighter-jets-collide-during-idaho-air-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589867\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy fighter jets collide during Idaho air show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The aircrew involved in the incident are in stable condition,&#8221; Mountain Air Force Base Gunfighters said in statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/366FW\/posts\/pfbid02uyCC9qxxMbDt3LQCKtPEpurWZyM56PQn4qwbN9Y7wXDYjqxQadMKRF9RcEEnAWYql\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted, external<\/a> on social media on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Thank you to all our guests for your patience and compassion, which has allowed us to quickly and safely respond to the incident,&#8221; the statement said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Navy spokesperson said the crew members were being checked by medical personnel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The EA-18G Growlers were assigned to an electronic attack squadron from Washington state. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navair.navy.mil\/product\/EA-18G-Growler\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US  Navy, external<\/a> says each of those jets cost about $67m (\u00a350.3m).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kim Sykes of Silver Wings of Idaho, which helped organise the air show, told a local CBS affiliate that no-one at the military base was hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Gunfighter Skies air show was last held in 2018, when a glider pilot died in an accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC has contacted the air force base and event organiser for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The aircrew involved in the incident are in stable condition,&#8221; Mountain Air Force Base Gunfighters said in statement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-589867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}