{"id":263401,"date":"2019-03-11T06:53:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T06:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=263401"},"modified":"2019-03-11T06:53:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T06:53:57","slug":"pilot-of-crashed-plane-reported-difficulties-asked-to-return-ethiopian-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pilot-of-crashed-plane-reported-difficulties-asked-to-return-ethiopian-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot of crashed plane reported &#8216;difficulties&#8217;, asked to return: Ethiopian Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa: The pilot of a Nairobi-bound Boeing 737 that crashed six minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa on Sunday, had alerted controllers &#8220;he had difficulties&#8221; and wanted to turn back the plane carrying 157 people, the head of Ethiopian Airlines said. The pilot &#8220;was given clearance&#8221; to return to Addis, chief executive officer Tewolde GebreMariam told journalists in the Ethiopian capital when asked whether there had been a distress call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa: The pilot of a Nairobi-bound Boeing 737 that crashed six minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa on Sunday, had alerted controllers &#8220;he had difficulties&#8221; and wanted to turn back the plane carrying 157 people, the head of Ethiopian Airlines said. The pilot &#8220;was given clearance&#8221; to return to Addis, chief executive officer Tewolde GebreMariam told journalists in the Ethiopian capital when asked whether there had been a distress call.<\/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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263401","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=263401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}