{"id":563801,"date":"2026-07-29T22:22:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=563801"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:25:47","slug":"ukraine-reports-loss-of-f-16-fighter-jet-pilot-ejects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ukraine-reports-loss-of-f-16-fighter-jet-pilot-ejects","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Reports Loss of F-16 Fighter Jet, Pilot Ejects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s Air Force <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/70652\">reported<\/a> losing contact with an F-16 fighter jet during a combat mission on July 29.<\/p>\n<p>According to the military, the aircraft was carrying out a mission to intercept aerial targets along one section of the front line. Preliminary information indicates that an onboard emergency occurred, forcing the pilot to eject.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot was successfully evacuated. The military said he is safe and has been taken to a medical facility for examination.<\/p>\n<p>Specialists and law enforcement officers are working at the crash site. According to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, no civilian casualties or damage were recorded as a result of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the incident is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s Air Force reported losing contact with an F-16 fighter jet during a combat mission on July 29. According to the military, the aircraft was carrying out a mission to intercept aerial targets along one section of the front line. Preliminary information indicates that an onboard emergency occurred, forcing the pilot to eject. The pilot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":563800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a6b0a8f50bc2.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Ukraine Reports Loss of F-16 Fighter Jet, Pilot Ejects"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[143121,143123],"class_list":["post-563801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna","tag-ukraina"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}