{"id":339194,"date":"2020-02-27T11:30:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=339194"},"modified":"2020-02-27T11:30:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T06:00:49","slug":"iafs-c-17-globemaster-leaves-for-rescue-mission-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iafs-c-17-globemaster-leaves-for-rescue-mission-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF&#8217;s C-17 Globemaster leaves for rescue mission to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The C-17 Globemaster aircraft of the Indian Air Force has left for a medical mission to rescue Indian citizens, residents of friendly neighbouring countries and also to deliver about 15 tonnes of medical equipment to China&#8217;s Wuhan, which has been reeling under novel coronavirus outbreak, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to reporters, Group Captain AK Patnaik said: &#8220;The C-17 Globemaster aircraft of the Indian Air Force is presently on a medical mission to Wuhan, China. We are carrying about 15 tonnes of medical equipment. On our way back, we shall be carrying Indians and citizens of friendly neighbourhood countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The flight is scheduled to return tomorrow. The Central government has flown similar rescue missions from China a few weeks ago rescuing hundreds of Indian and foreign nationals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The C-17 Globemaster aircraft of the Indian Air Force has left for a medical mission to rescue Indian citizens, residents of friendly neighbouring countries and also to deliver about 15 tonnes of medical equipment to China&#8217;s Wuhan, which has been reeling under novel coronavirus outbreak, on Wednesday. Talking to reporters, Group Captain AK Patnaik said: &#8220;The C-17 Globemaster aircraft of the Indian Air Force is presently on a medical mission to Wuhan, China. We are carrying about 15 tonnes of medical equipment. On our way back, we shall be carrying Indians and citizens of friendly neighbourhood countries.&#8221; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339194","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}