{"id":277656,"date":"2019-06-07T05:02:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T05:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=277656"},"modified":"2019-06-07T05:10:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T05:10:34","slug":"100-hours-on-iaf-intensifies-search-ops-to-trace-missing-an-32-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/100-hours-on-iaf-intensifies-search-ops-to-trace-missing-an-32-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"100 hours on, IAF intensifies search ops to trace missing AN-32 aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Thursday said it has intensified the search operation to trace the AN-32 aircraft that has gone missing in Arunachal Pradesh after taking off from Assam&#8217;s Jorhat, and has deployed more assets and roped in the local civic and police agencies in its effort. <\/p>\n<p>The Russian-made aircraft took off from Jorhat at 12.27 pm on Monday for the Mechuka Advanced Landing Ground. Its last contact with the ground control was at 1 pm. <\/p>\n<p>A total of eight aircrew and five passengers were on board the aircraft. <\/p>\n<p>All the three armed forces have deployed their assets to trace the aircraft. <\/p>\n<p>However, the search-and-rescue (SAR) operation has met with little success so far due to the difficult terrain and rough weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Thursday said it has intensified the search operation to trace the AN-32 aircraft that has gone missing in Arunachal Pradesh after taking off from Assam&#8217;s Jorhat, and has deployed more assets and roped in the local civic and police agencies in its effort. The Russian-made aircraft took off from Jorhat at 12.27 pm on Monday for the Mechuka Advanced Landing Ground. Its last contact with the ground control was at 1 pm. A total of eight aircrew and five passengers were on board the aircraft. All the three armed forces have deployed their assets [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277656","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=277656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}