{"id":70195,"date":"2024-06-21T18:26:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T08:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-director-operations-alaskan-command-dies-piper-pa-18-crash\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T18:26:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T08:26:46","slug":"us-air-force-director-of-operations-for-alaskan-command-dies-in-piper-pa-18-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=70195","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Director Of Operations For Alaskan Command Dies In Piper PA-18 Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            A small airplane carrying two people <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/aircrash\/\">crashed<\/a> in a remote lake on Alaska&#8217;s Kenai Peninsula around 100 miles south of Anchorage. Alaska Wildlife Troopers and the Alaskan Command identified the two people as Col. Mark &#8220;Tyson&#8221; Sletten and Paul Kodrat. Aircraft crashes are widely reported, so it can often seem like there are more aircraft crashes than there really are (especially with commercial airliners). <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/2023-aviation-safety\/\">2023 was one of aviation&#8217;s safest records, with zero commercial airliners crashing<\/a>.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bodies have been recovered, and the aircraft refloated after the deadly crash of a small float plane in a remote Alaskan lake.<\/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":[1008,396,1486,595,5218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-crash","category-aircraft","category-alaska","category-aviation-news","category-piper"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70195","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=70195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70199,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70195\/revisions\/70199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}