{"id":419817,"date":"2026-07-31T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/419817\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:45:08","slug":"f-35-involved-in-aircraft-mishap-at-california-marine-base-heavy-smoke-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/419817\/","title":{"rendered":"F-35 involved in ‘aircraft mishap’ at California Marine base, heavy smoke seen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SAN DIEGO – An F-35 aircraft caught fire Friday morning at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, prompting an emergency response, according to FOX 5\/KUSI.<\/a><\/p>\n

A FOX 5\/KUSI news crew spotted heavy black smoke rising from the base shortly after 10 a.m. while driving near MCAS Miramar.<\/p>\n

What they’re saying:<\/p>\n

Marine Corps officials told the station that emergency personnel responded to an F-35 “aircraft mishap” on the flight line. The aircraft was assigned to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Aircraft Group 11.<\/p>\n

Dig deeper:<\/p>\n

According to FOX 5\/KUSI, the fire was located in an area east of the base’s runways near the intersection of Kearny Villa Road and Johnson Road.<\/p>\n

What’s next:<\/p>\n

Officials have not released information about what caused the incident or whether anyone was injured. The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Source: The information in this story came from reporting by FOX 5\/KUSI, whose news crew observed heavy smoke rising from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Military<\/a>California<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO – An F-35 aircraft caught fire Friday morning at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1184,1703,100,74,76,75,1181],"class_list":["post-419817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-ca","tag-military","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419817","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=419817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}