{"id":41860,"date":"2014-03-24T21:42:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T02:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=41860"},"modified":"2014-03-25T09:10:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T14:10:36","slug":"aviator-jim-fang-maroney-dies-in-air-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=41860","title":{"rendered":"Aviator, Jim &#8220;Fang&#8221; Maroney Dies In Air Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CSi) \u00a0 Casselton aviator, Jim Maroney has died in an aircraft accident south of Knoxville, Tennessee,\u00a0\u00a0in the Cherokee National Forest.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred on Sunday as he was flying to participate in a Florida airshow.<\/p>\n<p>Fargo AirSho\u00a0\u00a0Committee Co-chairman\u00a0 Dick Walstad says, Maroney was flying his &#8220;Super\u00a0\u00a0Chipmunk, aircraft \u00a0when the crash occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Maroney, who lived in Milwaukee,was a former squadron and Group Commander for the Happy Hooligans,\u00a0119th Wing of the Air National Guard in Fargo, retiring \u00a0from the\u00a0Guard in 2002.\u00a0 Maroney\u00a0was ordered to Washington Sept 12, 2001, the day after 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>He also was a Chief Pilot for Delta Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Video from his website <a title=\"Super Chimpmunck Air Showss\" href=\"http:\/\/www.superchipmunkairshows.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Super Chimpmunk Air Shows<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sca7q-uS5vY?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CSi) \u00a0 Casselton aviator, Jim Maroney has died in an aircraft accident south of Knoxville, Tennessee,\u00a0\u00a0in the Cherokee National Forest. The accident occurred on Sunday as he was flying to participate in a Florida airshow. Fargo AirSho\u00a0\u00a0Committee Co-chairman\u00a0 Dick Walstad says, Maroney was flying his &#8220;Super\u00a0\u00a0Chipmunk, aircraft \u00a0when the crash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41860"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41863,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41860\/revisions\/41863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}