{"id":405671,"date":"2021-03-18T12:41:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T07:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=405671"},"modified":"2021-03-18T12:42:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T07:12:07","slug":"iaf-group-captain-dies-in-mig-21-accident-during-training-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-group-captain-dies-in-mig-21-accident-during-training-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF Group Captain dies in MiG-21 accident during training mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A group captain of the Indian Air Force (IAF) was killed in an accident involving a Mig-21 Bison aircraft in Gwalior on Wednesday morning, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot has been identified as Group Captain A Gupta.<\/p>\n<p>The accident took place at around 10:50 am, when the aircraft was taking off for a combat training mission, the officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The air headquarters has ordered a court of inquiry to ascertain the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A group captain of the Indian Air Force (IAF) was killed in an accident involving a Mig-21 Bison aircraft in Gwalior on Wednesday morning, officials said. The pilot has been identified as Group Captain A Gupta. The accident took place at around 10:50 am, when the aircraft was taking off for a combat training mission, the officials said. The air headquarters has ordered a court of inquiry to ascertain the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405671","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}