{"id":419435,"date":"2021-06-09T11:19:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T05:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=419435"},"modified":"2021-06-09T12:03:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T06:33:51","slug":"iaf-chopper-makes-hard-landing-in-ladakh-inquiry-ordered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-chopper-makes-hard-landing-in-ladakh-inquiry-ordered\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF chopper makes hard landing in Ladakh, inquiry ordered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Air Force (IAF) chopper made a hard landing near Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) on Monday, which is the northern-most airstrip in eastern Ladakh.<\/p>\n<p>Sources mentioned that the Indian Air Force\u2019s Advanced Light Helicopter Dhruv made a hard landing near DBO. Three IAF personnel were in the helicopter when the incident took place on Monday morning. A Court of Inquiry has been ordered in the incident, sources added.<\/p>\n<p>DBO is just north of Depsang Plains, which is one of the friction points in the over year-long standoff between India and China. It is strategically significant for India, as is just a few kilometres short of the Karakoram Pass in the north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Air Force (IAF) chopper made a hard landing near Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) on Monday, which is the northern-most airstrip in eastern Ladakh. Sources mentioned that the Indian Air Force\u2019s Advanced Light Helicopter Dhruv made a hard landing near DBO. Three IAF personnel were in the helicopter when the incident took place on Monday morning. A Court of Inquiry has been ordered in the incident, sources added. DBO is just north of Depsang Plains, which is one of the friction points in the over year-long standoff between India and China. It is strategically significant for India, as is [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419435","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=419435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}