{"id":419784,"date":"2026-07-31T18:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/419784\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T18:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:18:08","slug":"military-fighter-jet-crashes-at-mcas-miramar-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/419784\/","title":{"rendered":"Military fighter jet crashes at MCAS Miramar \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fighter jet crashed at MCAS Miramar military base Friday morning. <\/p>\n<p>The F-35 assigned to 3rd Marine Aircraft Group 11 crashed around 10 a.m., and sparked a fire in a field on base, a spokesperson for the military base confirmed. <\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said the aircraft carried only the pilot, but did not disclose whether there were any injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Footage from SkyRanger 7 showed a plane in at least two pieces amid a football-field-sized patch of scorched earth. It was not immediately clear what caused the crash, which was several feet away from the runway. <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Details may change as information is released. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fighter jet crashed at MCAS Miramar military base Friday morning. The F-35 assigned to 3rd Marine Aircraft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[9949,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-419784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-mcas-miramar","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419784","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=419784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}