{"id":668,"date":"2026-05-18T16:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanitystories.pics\/?p=668"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:37:39","slug":"idaho-air-show-horror-after-2-jets-cra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanitystories.pics\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"Idaho air show horror after 2 jets cra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The crowd thought they were watching a stunt.<\/p>\n

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Then the sky exploded.<\/p>\n

Two fighter jets slammed into each other midair over an Idaho air show, sending fire, metal and smoke roaring toward the ground as families screamed and ran.<\/p>\n

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Spectators at Mountain Home Air Force Base watched in horror as two jets, flying dangerously close during the Gunfighters Air Show, clipped each other and locked together.<\/p>\n

In an instant, the roar of engines turned into a sickening crack and a blooming fireball, black smoke clawing into the Idaho sky.<\/p>\n

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Parents grabbed children. People dropped their phones and ran, convinced they had just watched four service members die in front of them.<\/p>\n

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But as the wreckage tumbled toward the runway, four parachutes burst open against the smoke.<\/p>\n

The announcer\u2019s trembling voice cut through the panic, insisting, \u201cWe had four good parachutes,\u201d and asking the shaken crowd to pray.<\/p>\n

Emergency crews raced a mile south toward the landing site as the base went into lockdown, haunted by the memory of past fatal crashes.<\/p>\n

On a day meant to celebrate precision and power, survival itself became the only miracle that mattered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The crowd thought they were watching a stunt. Then the sky exploded. Two fighter jets slammed into each other midair over an Idaho air show, sending fire, metal and smoke…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitystories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitystories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitystories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitystories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitystories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humanitystories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/humanitystories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitystories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitystories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitystories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}