{"id":668504,"date":"2010-02-18T13:43:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T18:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=11857"},"modified":"2010-02-18T13:43:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T18:43:41","slug":"f-16%e2%80%99s-patrolling-skies-over-crash-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/668504","title":{"rendered":"F-16\u2019s Patrolling Skies Over Crash Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORAD launched two F-16 fighter jets from Ellington Field in Houston in response to a\u00a0small plane that crashed into an\u00a0Austin, Texas office building.\u00a0 A spokesman with NORAD\/ Northern Command calls the air patrol a &#8220;precaution&#8221; and tells Fox, &#8220;it&#8217;s pretty evident this is not a terrorist event, but the F-16&#8217;s will remain in the air until we are confident there is no further threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The jets were launched at 1142 ET, about 1 hour after the crash occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities on the ground are calling this an &#8220;isolated incident&#8221; saying &#8220;there is no further need for alarm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The suspected pilot, Andrew Joseph Stack III, reportedly set\u00a0fire to his home while his wife and\u00a0daughter were\u00a0still inside before\u00a0flying his\u00a0plane into a building that is known to house IRS offices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORAD launched two F-16 fighter jets from Ellington Field in Houston in response to a\u00a0small plane that crashed into an\u00a0Austin, Texas office building.\u00a0 A spokesman with NORAD\/ Northern Command calls the air patrol a &#8220;precaution&#8221; and tells Fox, &#8220;it&#8217;s pretty evident this is not a terrorist event, but the F-16&#8217;s will remain in the air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NUk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}