{"id":70905,"date":"2026-04-05T07:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/second-missing-airman-in-downed-jet-rescued-us-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T07:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:58:20","slug":"second-missing-airman-in-downed-jet-rescued-us-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/second-missing-airman-in-downed-jet-rescued-us-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Missing Airman in Downed Jet Rescued, US Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second crew member of an American fighter jet shot down has been rescued in a mountainous region deep inside Iran after a joint operation between the United States military and the CIA. The entire incident raises questions about what remains of Iran\u2019s defense systems and capability to shoot down aircraft. NBC\u2019s Stephanie Gosk reports for Sunday TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second crew member of an American fighter jet shot down has been rescued in a mountainous region deep inside Iran after a joint operation between the United States military and the CIA. The entire incident raises questions about what remains of Iran\u2019s defense systems and capability to shoot down aircraft. NBC\u2019s Stephanie Gosk reports &#8230; <a title=\"Second Missing Airman in Downed Jet Rescued, US Officials Say\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/second-missing-airman-in-downed-jet-rescued-us-officials-say\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Second Missing Airman in Downed Jet Rescued, US Officials Say\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}