{"id":449482,"date":"2021-11-11T11:29:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T05:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=449482"},"modified":"2021-11-11T13:07:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T07:37:29","slug":"afghan-pilots-being-trained-by-us-air-force-leave-tajikistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/afghan-pilots-being-trained-by-us-air-force-leave-tajikistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan pilots being trained by US air force leave Tajikistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan pilots, who were trained by the US, and other personnel boarded a US-brokered flight out of Tajikistan on Tuesday, ending a nearly three-month detention ordeal that began when they escaped there in their aircraft during the Taliban takeover, Afghan sources said. <\/p>\n<p>The plight of the pilots had attracted US congressional scrutiny \u2014 with lawmakers and military veterans frustrated by what they believed was a sluggish US relocation effort. <\/p>\n<p>One pilot shared images of the group boarding the aircraft, saying it was destined for the UAE. Flight-tracking data showed it had left the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan pilots, who were trained by the US, and other personnel boarded a US-brokered flight out of Tajikistan on Tuesday, ending a nearly three-month detention ordeal that began when they escaped there in their aircraft during the Taliban takeover, Afghan sources said. The plight of the pilots had attracted US congressional scrutiny \u2014 with lawmakers and military veterans frustrated by what they believed was a sluggish US relocation effort. One pilot shared images of the group boarding the aircraft, saying it was destined for the UAE. Flight-tracking data showed it had left the country.<\/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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449482","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=449482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}