{"id":36581,"date":"2024-05-07T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T05:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-accidentally-bombs-chinese-embassy-belgrade\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T05:45:12","slug":"25-years-ago-today-the-us-air-force-accidentally-bombs-the-chinese-embassy-in-belgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=36581","title":{"rendered":"25 Years Ago Today: The US Air Force Accidentally Bombs the Chinese Embassy In Belgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Time flies (bad pun intended since this is an aviation publication, after all). Hard to believe as it may seem, it was 25 years ago today, May 7, 1999, that the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-fighter-pilot-height-requirement-removal-explanation\/\">United States Air Force<\/a> &#8220;accidentally&#8221; bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now officially known as the Republic of <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/serbia-president-china-expansion\/\">Serbia<\/a>). At least that&#8217;s the official story; I put &#8220;accidentally&#8221; in quotation marks because, to this day, some conspiracy-minded pundits believe that the bombing was not so accidental.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This day in history in 1999, the U.S. Air Force accidentally bombed the Chinese Embassy in Serbia. Some still suspect it wasn&#8217;t really an accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,231,7038,4338,124,4559],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-asia","category-b-2-spirit-bomber","category-belgrade","category-serbia","category-stealth-bomber"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36582,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36581\/revisions\/36582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}