{"id":72951,"date":"2024-06-25T22:29:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T12:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/kc-135-flap-falls-from-sky-into-hawaiian-lagoon\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T22:29:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T12:29:45","slug":"kc-135-flap-falls-from-the-sky-into-quiet-hawaiian-beach-communitys-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=72951","title":{"rendered":"KC-135 Flap Falls From The Sky Into Quiet Hawaiian Beach Community&#8217;s Lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            A trailing flap of a Metrea Aerospace KC-135 fell from an aircraft flying over Ewa Beach in Hawaii. Metrea Aerospace is a civilian contractor that operates Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers. While this incident was from a civilian-operated <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/tanker\/\">tanker<\/a>, the United States Air Force operates a larger strategic tanker fleet than the rest of the world combined. <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/aerial-refueling\/\">In-air refueling<\/a> is a key part of how the US Air Force is able to project air power around the world. The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-kc-135-stratotanker-20-degree-dive-story\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >KC-135 Stratotanker has been a core part of the US aerial refueling capability for many decades<\/a> now.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A piece of a civilian-operated Stratotanker fell from the sky into a lagoon near a residential area in Hawaii.<\/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":[4259,396,567,1380,7559],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerial-refueling","category-aircraft","category-guides","category-hawaii","category-tanker"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72951","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=72951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72952,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72951\/revisions\/72952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}