{"id":260114,"date":"2019-02-20T07:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T07:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=260114"},"modified":"2019-02-20T07:24:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T07:24:31","slug":"1-pilot-dead-2-injured-as-surya-kirans-collide-mid-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/1-pilot-dead-2-injured-as-surya-kirans-collide-mid-air\/","title":{"rendered":"1 pilot dead, 2 injured as Surya Kirans collide mid air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Advanced Jet Trainer, Hawks attached to the Surya Kiran aerobatic team collided mid-air during a practice sortie on Tuesday afternoon, killing a pilot. Two other pilots were also injured as the jets came crashing down just outside the Yelahanka Air Force Station here.<\/p>\n<p>Training for the Aero-India 2019 aerospace exposition, the hugely popular aerobatic team had completed a full dress rehearsal with nine aircraft on Monday. None of the aircraft had reported any issue with the flight parameters before Tuesday&#8217;s fatal crash. <\/p>\n<p>While two pilots ejected to safety, Director General of Police, Fire and Emergency Services, M N Reddi later confirmed to Deccan Herald that one pilot had died. Two others in the second flight survived the ejection with injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Advanced Jet Trainer, Hawks attached to the Surya Kiran aerobatic team collided mid-air during a practice sortie on Tuesday afternoon, killing a pilot. Two other pilots were also injured as the jets came crashing down just outside the Yelahanka Air Force Station here. Training for the Aero-India 2019 aerospace exposition, the hugely popular aerobatic team had completed a full dress rehearsal with nine aircraft on Monday. None of the aircraft had reported any issue with the flight parameters before Tuesday&#8217;s fatal crash. While two pilots ejected to safety, Director General of Police, Fire and Emergency Services, M N Reddi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}