{"id":39036,"date":"2026-07-31T19:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/31\/us-fighter-jet-goes-down-near-california-military-base\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T19:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:52:44","slug":"us-fighter-jet-goes-down-near-california-military-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/31\/us-fighter-jet-goes-down-near-california-military-base\/","title":{"rendered":"US Fighter Jet Goes Down Near California Military Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>F-35 Fighter Jet Crashes Near San Diego, Pilot Rescued Safely<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles \u2013 A US F-35 fighter jet went down on Friday near a military base in San Diego. Fortunately, the pilot managed to eject safely before the crash, officials reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to a spokesperson from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, the incident occurred around 10:00 am local time. &#8220;There was an aviation mishap involving a Marine Corps F-35B in the area,&#8221; the spokesperson confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot was quickly rescued and is currently being taken to a medical facility. However, details about any potential injuries to the pilot or others involved have not yet been released. The military plans to provide more information in due course.<\/p>\n<p>Videos shared on social media depicted a large plume of smoke billowing from the downed aircraft, while firefighters worked to control the flames.<\/p>\n<p>Marine Corps Air Station Miramar is historically famous as the former home of the Navy&#8217;s &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; pilot training school, which gained fame through the classic 1986 movie &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; featuring Tom Cruise.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F-35 Fighter Jet Crashes Near San Diego, Pilot Rescued Safely Los Angeles \u2013 A US F-35 fighter jet went down on Friday near a military base in San Diego. Fortunately, the pilot managed to eject safely before the crash, officials reported. According to a spokesperson from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, the incident occurred around<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[5152,18335,38466,51621,51620,22172,21080],"class_list":["post-39036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-san-diego","tag-tom-cruise","tag-us-fighter-jet","tag-us-fighter-jet-crashes","tag-us-military","tag-us-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}