{"id":420657,"date":"2026-08-01T09:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420657\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T09:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:05:24","slug":"f-35-crashes-in-san-diego-sparking-fire-and-leaving-jet-in-pieces-near-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420657\/","title":{"rendered":"F-35 crashes in San Diego, sparking fire and leaving jet in pieces near runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F-35 crashes in San Diego, sparking fire and leaving jet in pieces near runway<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785575124_609_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>SAN DIEGO \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A fighter jet crashed at MCAS Miramar military base Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">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 data-node-id=\"2\">The spokesperson said the aircraft carried only the pilot, but did not disclose whether there were any injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">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 data-node-id=\"4\">This is a developing story. Details may change as information is released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"F-35 crashes in San Diego, sparking fire and leaving jet in pieces near runway SAN DIEGO \u2014 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7271,7203,168029,6308,26177,3802,4987,168031,349,19133,13568,9365,74,76,75,168030,11758,3044],"class_list":["post-420657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-aircraft","tag-base","tag-f-35-crash","tag-field","tag-fields","tag-fire","tag-footage","tag-football-field-sized-patch","tag-injury","tag-jet","tag-piece","tag-runway","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-skyranger","tag-spokesperson","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420657","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=420657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}