{"id":1999637,"date":"2023-08-13T21:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T01:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-pilots-eject-from-mig-23-in-mid-air-jet-explodes-during-michigan-air-show\/"},"modified":"2023-08-13T21:34:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T01:34:09","slug":"watch-pilots-eject-from-mig-23-in-mid-air-jet-explodes-during-michigan-air-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-pilots-eject-from-mig-23-in-mid-air-jet-explodes-during-michigan-air-show\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: MiG-23 Pilots Safely Eject Mid-Air, Jet Explodes at Michigan Air Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-pilots-eject-from-mig-23-in-mid-air-jet-explodes-during-michigan-air-show%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1999637&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Explosive Crash at Michigan Air \u200cShow<\/h2>\n<p>In\u200b a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/armed-pregnant-woman-and-husband-open-fire-on-suspects-in-gas-station-shootout\/\" title=\"Pregnant woman and husband shoot at suspects in gas station shootout.\">heart-stopping incident<\/a> at the Yankee Air \u200bMuseum\u2019s Thunder Over Michigan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuomo-wasnt-the-first-times-up-leaders-have-history-of-covering-up-liberal-scandals\/\" title=\"Cuomo Wasn\u2019t the First: Time\u2019s Up Leaders Have History of Covering Up Liberal Scandals\">air show<\/a>, two \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-pilots-eject-from-mig-23-in-mid-air-jet-explodes-during-michigan-air-show\/\" title=\"VIDEO: MiG-23 Pilots Safely Eject Mid-Air, Jet Explodes at Michigan Air Show\">pilots narrowly escaped disaster<\/a> \u2064when they ejected from a MiG-23 jet just\u2062 moments\u200d before it exploded \u2062mid-air and crashed into parked vehicles \u200cat a \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-safeway-employee-deemed-heroic-after-attempting-to-disarm-gunman-who-killed-2-injured-2-police\/\" title=\"Oregon Safeway Employee Deemed Heroic After Attempting To Disarm Gunman Who Killed 2, Injured 2: Police\u00a0\">nearby apartment complex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Wayne County Airport Authority confirmed that \u200cthe pilots successfully ejected from the aircraft and \u2064were transported to a nearby hospital for precautionary measures. Miraculously, \u2063no significant injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NOW \u2013 MiG-23 aircraft crashes during\u200d an air show in\u2062 Michigan.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UVPGNh0viZ\">pic.twitter.com\/UVPGNh0viZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Disclose.tv \u2064(@disclosetv)\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/disclosetv\/status\/1690839038519869440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August \u200b13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Authorities confirmed that the\u2064 crash occurred in \u200cthe parking lot\u2063 of\u200b the Waverly on the Lake Apartments in Belleville,\u2063 Michigan. Thankfully, no one at the \u200bapartment complex or the air show suffered any significant injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews swiftly rescued the pilots\u200b from Belleville\u200d Lake, with one pilot landing in the lake and the other in a tree. Although \u200bboth\u200c pilots were\u200b injured, they are \u200bexpected \u2064to recover.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin McNamara, Van Buren Township supervisor, expressed his relief, stating, &#8220;It&#8217;s a miracle. We&#8217;re a subdivision community,\u200b and it\u2062 landed next to a lake. There are not very\u200d many empty \u200dproperties next to lakes. This happens to be one of the rare properties\u200d there are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the cause of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/madagascar-minister-claims-he-swam-12-hours-to-safety-after-helicopter-crash\/\" title=\"Madagascar Minister Claims He 'Swam 12 Hours' to Safety After Helicopter Crash\">crash remains unknown<\/a>, the Federal \u200dAviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board have \u2064launched investigations to determine\u200d the\u200d factors leading to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dThunder Over Michigan air\u200c show, which \u2064showcases a variety of modern and \u200cvintage military planes, was halted following the crash. Attendees were instructed to leave the airfield\u2064 calmly and safely.<\/p>\n<h3>Awe-Inspiring\u200d Experience<\/h3>\n<p>The president and\u200c CEO \u2063of the\u200b Yankee Air \u200cMuseum, Kevin Walsh, expressed his hope that\u2064 the air show would inspire people. He emphasized the incredible\u2062 experience\u2062 of \u200dwitnessing these planes in action, saying, &#8220;Everyone that flies one of these planes went to an airshow as a kid, and it\u2019s sensational. How they \u2062feel, how they fly, \u200chow \u2064they smell and how they sound, it\u2019s\u2062 all about \u200dthe experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses,\u200b like Mark McCulloch, were\u2063 left in \u200cshock\u2064 by the\u200d malfunctioning jet. McCulloch, who captured the incident on his camera, described \u200cthe moment, saying, &#8220;Two engines \u200dblew out, you could see that, but I couldn\u2019t hear it because the guy on the \u200bPA was talking next to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a Michigan air show, two pilots safely ejected from a MiG-23 jet before it exploded mid-air. The aircraft then crashed into unoccupied parked vehicles at a nearby apartment complex. Wayne County Airport Authority confirmed the pilots crashed a MiG-23 demonstration plane into the parking lot, as reported by local media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1999638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}