{"id":406095,"date":"2021-03-22T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T03:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406095"},"modified":"2021-03-22T09:05:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T03:35:25","slug":"us-defence-secretary-condoles-death-of-iaf-pilot-in-mig-21-aircraft-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-defence-secretary-condoles-death-of-iaf-pilot-in-mig-21-aircraft-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"US Defence Secretary condoles death of IAF pilot in MiG-21 aircraft crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin on Saturday extended condolences to the Indian Air Force pilot who lost his life in an accident that took place earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to express my deepest condolences for the tragic accident that killed an Indian Air Force pilot earlier this week,&#8221; Austin, who is on a three-day visit to India, said while making the joint statement along with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our hearts go out to his family and friends&#8230;and his death reminds us of the risks our brave servicemen and women take each day to defend our democracies, our people, and our way of life,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>Group Captain Ashish Gupta lost his life after his MiG-21 Bison aircraft met with an accident on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin on Saturday extended condolences to the Indian Air Force pilot who lost his life in an accident that took place earlier this week. &#8220;I would like to express my deepest condolences for the tragic accident that killed an Indian Air Force pilot earlier this week,&#8221; Austin, who is on a three-day visit to India, said while making the joint statement along with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. &#8220;Our hearts go out to his family and friends&#8230;and his death reminds us of the risks our brave servicemen and women take each day to defend our democracies, [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406095","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=406095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}