Fresno, California (KMPH) \u2014 A pilot of the 144th Fighter Wing in Fresno landed their wounded F-15 safely after a rare and what could have been a catastrophic malfunction.<\/p>\n
The canopy of the single seat jet blew off while the plane was flying at 21-thousand feet.<\/p>\n
A pair of Air National Guard jets performed a flyover at the start of the Clovis Rodeo Saturday just before 2 p.m. after the National Anthem.<\/p>\n
At approximately 2:30 p.m. the pilot declared the emergency over military training airspace above the Sierra Nevada mountains.<\/p>\n
Instead of ejecting, the pilot flew back to Fresno Airport, landed the plane, and stopped on the runway where emergency personnel went to its aid.<\/p>\n
The pilot was evaluated by EMS, it’s not known on his\/her condition.<\/p>\n
The jet canopy weighs around 500 pounds, so far no reports of it being found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno, California (KMPH) \u2014 A pilot of the 144th Fighter Wing in Fresno landed their wounded F-15 safely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-288123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}