{"id":450886,"date":"2021-11-20T12:09:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T06:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450886"},"modified":"2021-11-20T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T08:22:00","slug":"iaf-chopper-force-lands-in-arunachal-pradesh-crew-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-chopper-force-lands-in-arunachal-pradesh-crew-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF chopper force-lands in Arunachal Pradesh, crew safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Mi-17 chopper of the Indian Air Force (IAF), with two pilots and three crew members on board, force-landed in eastern Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday after encountering a technical snag, defence sources said. <\/p>\n<p>All five of them are safe, having sustained just minor injuries, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The chopper was on a maintenance sortie when it had to force-land in Lohit sector of the state. <\/p>\n<p>A court of inquiry will be ordered to ascertain the reasons behind the incident, the sources added.<\/p>\n<p>In September, two pilots were killed when an Army helicopter crash-landed on a hill in Shiv Garh Dhar area near Patnitop tourist resort in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Mi-17 chopper of the Indian Air Force (IAF), with two pilots and three crew members on board, force-landed in eastern Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday after encountering a technical snag, defence sources said. All five of them are safe, having sustained just minor injuries, the sources said. The chopper was on a maintenance sortie when it had to force-land in Lohit sector of the state. A court of inquiry will be ordered to ascertain the reasons behind the incident, the sources added. In September, two pilots were killed when an Army helicopter crash-landed on a hill in Shiv Garh Dhar [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450886","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=450886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}