{"id":649202,"date":"2026-05-17T21:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/649202\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T21:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:23:11","slug":"us-two-jets-collide-midair-at-idaho-air-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/649202\/","title":{"rendered":"US: Two jets collide midair at Idaho air show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/united-states-of-america\/t-19065189\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US<\/a> fighter jets were involved in a midair collision on Sunday during an airshow near Mountain Home Air Force Base in the state of Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred during the Gunfighter \u200bSkies Air Show, two miles (3.2 kilometers)\u00a0from the US Air Force base, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>What else do we know about the midair collision in Idaho?<\/p>\n<p>The Mountain Home Air Force Base, located about 50 miles south of the state capital Boise,\u00a0said on\u00a0social media that the area had been locked down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emergency responders are \u200bon the \u200cscene, an\u00a0investigation is underway and \u200bmore \u2060details will be released as \u2060they \u200bbecome available,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted on social media showed four parachutes opening as the planes fell to the ground after colliding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The air show&#8217;s organizers said the four crew members had ejected safely.<\/p>\n<p>Edited by: Darko Janjevic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two US fighter jets were involved in a midair collision on Sunday during an airshow near Mountain Home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-649202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}