{"id":416326,"date":"2021-05-22T08:36:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T03:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=416326"},"modified":"2021-05-22T08:55:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T03:25:46","slug":"indian-air-force-pilot-killed-as-mig-21-bison-aircraft-crashes-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-air-force-pilot-killed-as-mig-21-bison-aircraft-crashes-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Air Force pilot killed as MiG-21 Bison aircraft crashes in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Air Force pilot was killed after a MiG-21 Bison aircraft crashed in Punjab&#8217;s Moga district, officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft was on a routine sortie from Suratgarh when it crashed near a village in Moga, they said. <\/p>\n<p>A Court of Inquiry has been ordered to ascertain the cause of the accident which took place late Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>There was an aircraft accident last night involving a Bison aircraft of IAF in the western sector, the Indian Air Force (IAF) said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot, Sqn Ldr Abhinav Choudhary, sustained fatal injuries.<\/p>\n<p>IAF condoles the tragic loss and stands firmly with the bereaved family. A Court of Inquiry has been ordered to ascertain the cause of the accident, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Air Force pilot was killed after a MiG-21 Bison aircraft crashed in Punjab&#8217;s Moga district, officials said on Friday. The aircraft was on a routine sortie from Suratgarh when it crashed near a village in Moga, they said. A Court of Inquiry has been ordered to ascertain the cause of the accident which took place late Thursday night. There was an aircraft accident last night involving a Bison aircraft of IAF in the western sector, the Indian Air Force (IAF) said in a tweet. The pilot, Sqn Ldr Abhinav Choudhary, sustained fatal injuries. IAF condoles the tragic loss [&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-416326","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\/416326","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=416326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}