{"id":53841,"date":"2024-05-26T19:49:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T09:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/pilot-dies-after-spitfire-crashes-during-battle-of-britain-event\/"},"modified":"2024-05-26T19:49:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T09:49:51","slug":"pilot-dies-after-spitfire-crashes-during-battle-of-britain-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=53841","title":{"rendered":"Pilot Dies After Spitfire Crashes During Battle Of Britain Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            A vintage British Spitfire from <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/wwii\/\">World War Two<\/a> has crashed in England, killing the pilot. The aircraft was 75 years old and is known to have shot down a German aircraft during the D-Day operations. Previous to this crash, there were only eight flying Spitfires around the world and it had been used to commemorate its role as one of <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/battle-of-britain-iconic-aircarft-list\/\">the top aircraft that saved the UK during the Battle of Britain<\/a>.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WW2 veteran MK356 Spitfire crashed during D-Day commemorations in England, killing the RAF pilot.<\/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":[396,1032,120,1449,395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircrash","category-europe","category-raf","category-ww2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53841","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=53841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53842,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53841\/revisions\/53842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}