{"id":1436004,"date":"2026-09-05T17:28:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/f-4-phantom-fighter-jet-crashes-during-air-show-in-greece\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T17:28:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:28:05","slug":"f-4-phantom-fighter-jet-crashes-during-air-show-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/f-4-phantom-fighter-jet-crashes-during-air-show-in-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"F-4 Phantom fighter jet crashes during air show in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A two-seat F-4 Phantom fighter jet crashed during an air show at Tanagra Airport near Athens, Greece. The plane caught fire after it crashed and a column of black smoke rose above the crash site.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/greek-f-4-crashes-during-an-air-show-near-athens-ert-reports-2026-09-05\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> According to preliminary data, the plane suddenly began to lose altitude, after which it crashed and exploded. Thousands of people were at the air show, and the crash site is located several hundred meters from the spectators.<\/p>\n<p> Two helicopters arrived at the scene of the accident and were extinguishing the fire. A representative of the Hellenic Air Force said that a search and rescue operation was underway.<\/p>\n<p> According to preliminary data, the fighter jet broke into 2 parts, and fires broke out in 2 different places. There was no information about the fate of the pilots or possible casualties at the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p> People were also urged to leave the area through loudspeakers at the airbase.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\"><p><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"uk\"> \ud83d\udc40An F-4 Phantom fighter jet crashed during an air show in Greece <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nfhdM16Q5C\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nfhdM16Q5C<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 NATO Secretary General (@GensekNato15656) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GensekNato15656\/status\/2096228762635432026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">September 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> Recall that a Lockheed C-130 Hercules <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-kolumbii-rozbyvsia-viyskovyy-litak-c-130-zahynuly-66-liudey\/\">transport plane crashed during takeoff in Colombia<\/a> . The crash killed 66 people.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-seat F-4 Phantom fighter jet crashed during an air show at Tanagra Airport near Athens, Greece. The plane caught fire after it crashed and a column of black smoke rose above the crash site. This is reported by Reuters . According to preliminary data, the plane suddenly began to lose altitude, after which it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1435998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1436004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1435998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}