{"id":416192,"date":"2021-05-21T10:11:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T04:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=416192"},"modified":"2021-05-21T11:01:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T05:31:05","slug":"iafs-mig-21-aircraft-crashes-in-punjab-pilot-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iafs-mig-21-aircraft-crashes-in-punjab-pilot-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF&#8217;s MiG-21 aircraft crashes in Punjab, pilot killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Air Force pilot was killed after a MiG-21 fighter aircraft crashed near Punjab&#8217;s Moga late on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to IAF officials, the aircraft was on a routine training sortie when the accident happened. <\/p>\n<p>The pilot has been identified as IAF MCC Squadron leader Abhinav Chaudhary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was an aircraft accident last night involving a Bison aircraft of IAF in the western sector. The pilot, Sqn Ldr Abhinav Choudhary, sustained fatal injuries. IAF condoles the tragic loss and stands firmly with the bereaved family,&#8221; said the IAF in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>A Court of Inquiry (CoI) has been ordered to investigate the cause of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Air Force pilot was killed after a MiG-21 fighter aircraft crashed near Punjab&#8217;s Moga late on Thursday night. According to IAF officials, the aircraft was on a routine training sortie when the accident happened. The pilot has been identified as IAF MCC Squadron leader Abhinav Chaudhary. &#8220;There was an aircraft accident last night involving a Bison aircraft of IAF in the western sector. The pilot, Sqn Ldr Abhinav Choudhary, sustained fatal injuries. IAF condoles the tragic loss and stands firmly with the bereaved family,&#8221; said the IAF in a statement. A Court of Inquiry (CoI) has been ordered [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416192","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\/416192","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=416192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}