{"id":405640,"date":"2021-03-18T11:18:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=405640"},"modified":"2021-03-18T12:31:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T07:01:34","slug":"iaf-group-captain-dies-in-mig-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-group-captain-dies-in-mig-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF group captain dies in MiG crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Air Force group captain died in an accident while his MiG-21 Bison aircraft was taking off on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cfatal accident\u201d involving Group Captain A. Gupta took place when the aircraft was taking off for a combat training mission.<\/p>\n<p>The air force did not disclose the location of the airbase, except for saying it was in central India. The news agency PTI put out a picture of the wreckage from Gwalior. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA MiG-21 Bison aircraft of the IAF was involved in a fatal accident this morning while taking off for a combat training mission at an airbase in central India,\u201d the IAF said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Air Force group captain died in an accident while his MiG-21 Bison aircraft was taking off on Wednesday morning. The \u201cfatal accident\u201d involving Group Captain A. Gupta took place when the aircraft was taking off for a combat training mission. The air force did not disclose the location of the airbase, except for saying it was in central India. The news agency PTI put out a picture of the wreckage from Gwalior. \u201cA MiG-21 Bison aircraft of the IAF was involved in a fatal accident this morning while taking off for a combat training mission at an airbase [&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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405640","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=405640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}