{"id":384782,"date":"2020-11-18T11:22:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T05:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=384782"},"modified":"2020-11-18T12:19:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T06:49:32","slug":"f-16-disappears-off-taiwans-east-coast-fate-still-unclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/f-16-disappears-off-taiwans-east-coast-fate-still-unclear\/","title":{"rendered":"F-16 disappears off Taiwan\u2019s east coast, fate still unclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan is searching for an F-16 fighter jet and its pilot after losing contact with the aircraft Tuesday night during a training exercise. <\/p>\n<p>The jet, piloted by Colonel Chiang Cheng-chih, disappeared from radar at an altitude of more than 6,000 feet only two minutes after takeoff from Hualien Air Base on Taiwan\u2019s east coast during a nighttime training mission, Taiwan air force commander Hsieh Jih-sheng told reporters Tuesday evening. <\/p>\n<p>The disappearance of the F-16 is the second training incident the Taiwanese air force has had in the past month. It also comes at a time heightened tensions with Beijing, which has seen increased incursions by Chinese warplane into the island\u2019s air defense identification zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan is searching for an F-16 fighter jet and its pilot after losing contact with the aircraft Tuesday night during a training exercise. The jet, piloted by Colonel Chiang Cheng-chih, disappeared from radar at an altitude of more than 6,000 feet only two minutes after takeoff from Hualien Air Base on Taiwan\u2019s east coast during a nighttime training mission, Taiwan air force commander Hsieh Jih-sheng told reporters Tuesday evening. The disappearance of the F-16 is the second training incident the Taiwanese air force has had in the past month. It also comes at a time heightened tensions with Beijing, which [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384782","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=384782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}