{"id":296766,"date":"2019-10-18T11:09:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T05:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=296766"},"modified":"2019-10-18T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T06:05:00","slug":"pakistan-sent-two-f-16-fighter-planes-last-month-to-intercept-a-spicejet-flight-to-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pakistan-sent-two-f-16-fighter-planes-last-month-to-intercept-a-spicejet-flight-to-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan sent two F-16 fighter planes last month to intercept a SpiceJet flight to Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Pakistan last month scrambled two F-16 jets in its airspace to intercept a SpiceJetNSE -1.88 % plane, assuming it to be a military aircraft, which was heading to Kabul from Delhi with around 120 passengers, a senior government official said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident came in the backdrop of tension between India and Pakistan that had escalated after the Indian government revoked Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s special status on August 5 and bifurcated it into union territories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the morning of September 23, the SpiceJet flight SG 21 left Delhi airport and was going through Pakistan&#8217;s airspace to Kabul. Pakistan scrambled two F-16 planes and intercepted the flight mid-air,&#8221; said the official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Pakistan last month scrambled two F-16 jets in its airspace to intercept a SpiceJetNSE -1.88 % plane, assuming it to be a military aircraft, which was heading to Kabul from Delhi with around 120 passengers, a senior government official said. The incident came in the backdrop of tension between India and Pakistan that had escalated after the Indian government revoked Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s special status on August 5 and bifurcated it into union territories. &#8220;On the morning of September 23, the SpiceJet flight SG 21 left Delhi airport and was going through Pakistan&#8217;s airspace to Kabul. Pakistan scrambled [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296766","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\/296766","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=296766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}