{"id":11521,"date":"2011-10-08T11:32:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T15:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11521"},"modified":"2011-10-08T11:32:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T15:32:18","slug":"japan-grounds-their-f-15-aircraft-after-external-fuel-tank-falls-off-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/08\/japan-grounds-their-f-15-aircraft-after-external-fuel-tank-falls-off-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan grounds their F-15 aircraft after external fuel tank falls off in flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese are taking no chances after an external fuel tank fell off one of their F-15 fighters, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-pacific-15226437?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">grounding the fleet<\/a> for investigation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Japan has grounded more than 200 F-15 fighter jets after a fuel tank fell off one of the war planes during a training mission.<\/p>\n<p>Flames were seen under the wing and fallen parts were scattered at sites near the western city of Komatsu.<\/p>\n<p>No-one was injured in the incident and the plane landed safely.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second time in three months that officials have suspended F-15 flights.<\/p>\n<p>The 155-kg (340lb) tank, which was empty, and parts of a dummy missile came free and fell from the plane as it was nearing a field for landing. The debris fell on 10 locations, including a sewage plant, officials said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese are taking no chances after an external fuel tank fell off one of their F-15 fighters, grounding the fleet for investigation: Japan has grounded more than 200 F-15 fighter jets after a fuel tank fell off one of the war planes during a training mission. Flames were seen under the wing and fallen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5,15],"tags":[123,145,751],"class_list":["post-11521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-military","category-technology","tag-aircraft","tag-airforce","tag-f-15"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2ZP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11522,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11521\/revisions\/11522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}