{"id":374,"date":"2016-11-29T17:32:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T17:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/?p=374"},"modified":"2016-11-29T19:57:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T19:57:05","slug":"pilot-killed-in-crash-identified-as-capt-thomas-mcqueen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/2016\/11\/29\/pilot-killed-in-crash-identified-as-capt-thomas-mcqueen\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot killed in crash identified as Capt. Thomas McQueen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RCAF pilot killed in a training accident near Cold Lake, Alta. yesterday has been identified as Capt. Thomas McQueen of Hamilton, Ont.<\/p>\n<p>McQueen\u2019s single-seat CF-18 Hornet crashed in Saskatchewan yesterday morning near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference this morning, Col. Paul Doyle of the Department of National Defence said McQueen had served in the Forces for 10 years, including a stint in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Doyle extended his condolences to the captain\u2019s family, including McQueen\u2019s fianc\u00e9e who lives near Cold Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Doyle said there will be an investigation to determine the cause of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The crash comes a week after the federal government announced it would invest in new jets to replace Canada\u2019s aging fleet of CF-18s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo:<\/strong> <strong>Capt<\/strong>.<strong> McQueen poses in front of a CF-18 fighter jet in 2014, when he served as a Santa\u2019s escort pilot. ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE\/Cpl. Elena Vlassova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=thedriftcu\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RCAF pilot killed in a training accident near Cold Lake, Alta. yesterday has been identified as Capt. Thomas McQueen of Hamilton, Ont. McQueen\u2019s single-seat CF-18 Hornet crashed in Saskatchewan yesterday morning near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border. In a press conference this morning, Col. Paul Doyle of the Department of National Defence said McQueen had served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,87],"tags":[22,97,96],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-third-edition","tag-canada","tag-cold-lake","tag-rcaf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}