{"id":10224,"date":"2025-12-05T02:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/?p=10224"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:42:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:42:36","slug":"us-f-16-crashes-in-california-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/us-f-16-crashes-in-california-video\/","title":{"rendered":"US F-16 crashes in California (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The pilot, a member of the Air Force\u2019s Thunderbirds aerobatics team, managed to safely eject<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A US F-16C crashed during a training mission over California on Wednesday morning, the Air Force reported.<\/p>\n<p>The plane came down in an unpopulated desert area around 130 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles in a zone used for live weapons testing, Stars and Stripes military news outlet said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A video circulating on social media purports to show a fireball rising from the crash site, with the pilot parachuting down some distance away.<\/p>\n<p>According to the US Air Force, the plane belonged to its premier air demonstration squadron.<\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;On Dec. 3, 2025, at approximately 10:45 am, a pilot from the US Air Force Air Demonstration Team, the Thunderbirds, safely ejected from an F-16C Fighting Falcon during a training mission over controlled airspace in California,&rdquo;<\/em> a USAF spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot was in stable condition and received follow-up care, they added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\u26a1\ufe0f- A U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds F-16 from the air show demonstration team has crashed in California during training. The pilot was able to safely eject. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0IkWFABild\">pic.twitter.com\/0IkWFABild<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rerum Novarum \/\/ Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts (@officialrnintel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialrnintel\/status\/1996428585700295046?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><\/em>Earlier this year, a Polish Air Force F-16 pilot belonging to the nation&rsquo;s Tiger Demo aerobatic team died in a crash during the Radom Air Show after attempting a high-speed barrel roll maneuver.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/622329-fighter-jet-crash-california\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n            <span>READ MORE: <\/span>F-35 crashes in California (VIDEO)<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pilot, a member of the Air Force\u2019s Thunderbirds aerobatics team, managed to safely eject A US F-16C crashed during a training mission over California on Wednesday morning, the Air Force reported. The plane came down in an unpopulated desert area around 130 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/us-f-16-crashes-in-california-video\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10225,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224\/revisions\/10225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}