{"id":18837,"date":"2026-08-01T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/01\/us-navy-f35b-fighter-jet-crash-california-miramar\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:00:24","slug":"us-navy-f35b-fighter-jet-crash-california-miramar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/01\/us-navy-f35b-fighter-jet-crash-california-miramar\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy F-35 Fighter Jet Crashes Near Miramar Air Base in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press has reported that a US Navy F-35B fighter jet crashed near Miramar Air Base in San Diego, California.<\/p>\n<p>According to US officials, the pilot ejected using a parachute before the aircraft hit the ground and was subsequently taken to the hospital. No further details about the pilot&#8217;s condition have been released.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that the fighter jet caught fire after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The US Navy described the incident as a serious aviation accident. Miramar Air Base is considered one of the key military installations of the United States in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US Navy F-35B fighter jet crashed near Miramar Air Base in California. The pilot ejected safely and was hospitalized. The Navy called it a serious aviation incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}