{"id":161247,"date":"2015-10-21T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=161247"},"modified":"2015-10-21T12:09:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T12:09:48","slug":"us-pilot-killed-in-f-18-jet-crash-in-fens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/10\/us-pilot-killed-in-f-18-jet-crash-in-fens\/","title":{"rendered":"US pilot killed in F-18 jet crash in Fens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A US Navy pilot has died in an F-18 jet crash in the Fens in Cambridgeshire, close to an RAF base.<\/p>\n<p>The hornet crashed on farm land in Redmere, near Ely, close to the Suffolk border, with the alarm raised at 10:30 BST.<\/p>\n<p>Cambridgeshire Police confirmed the pilot, the only crew member, died.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft had taken off from RAF Lakenheath, but was not connected to the base.<\/p>\n<p>It crashed four miles from RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk.<\/p>\n<p>Amateur aviation enthusiast Roger Smith told BBC Radio Suffolk that the F-18 was one of a group of Hornet Marine Corps planes that were heading back to the US from the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>They arrived at Lakenheath over the weekend and four of them took off this morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US Navy pilot has died in an F-18 jet crash in the Fens in Cambridgeshire, close to an RAF base. 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