{"id":424227,"date":"2021-07-05T09:29:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T03:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=424227"},"modified":"2021-07-05T11:10:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T05:40:20","slug":"philippine-plane-involved-in-worst-military-disaster-in-30-yrs-was-given-by-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/philippine-plane-involved-in-worst-military-disaster-in-30-yrs-was-given-by-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine plane, involved in worst military disaster in 30 yrs, was given by US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 17 people were feared dead on Sunday when a Philippine C-130 military aircraft carrying troops crash-landed in the southern part of the country. It has now come to light that the aircraft, which is now part of the Philippines&#8217; worst military air disaster in nearly 30 years, was actually granted by the US government for heavy airlifting purposes. <\/p>\n<p>A government website announcement in January, reviewed by news agency Reuters, confirmed that the Lockheed Martin C-130H Hercules transport plane was one of the two aircraft granted by the US government through the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. The model, a workhorse for armed forces around the world, had first flown in 1988, according to the C-130.net website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 17 people were feared dead on Sunday when a Philippine C-130 military aircraft carrying troops crash-landed in the southern part of the country. It has now come to light that the aircraft, which is now part of the Philippines&#8217; worst military air disaster in nearly 30 years, was actually granted by the US government for heavy airlifting purposes. A government website announcement in January, reviewed by news agency Reuters, confirmed that the Lockheed Martin C-130H Hercules transport plane was one of the two aircraft granted by the US government through the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. The model, a [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424227","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=424227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}