{"id":455103,"date":"2021-12-09T10:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T04:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=455103"},"modified":"2021-12-09T11:14:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T05:44:22","slug":"advanced-and-robust-chopper-weather-could-have-been-crash-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/advanced-and-robust-chopper-weather-could-have-been-crash-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced and robust chopper; weather could have been crash factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mi-17V5 helicopter that crashed Wednesday had flown more than 26 hours without a snag after it was last serviced, according to sources. It belonged to the 109 Helicopter Unit based at the Sulur air base near Coimbatore.<\/p>\n<p>No system malfunction or snag was reported in the last 2-3 sorties of this particular helicopter, sources said, adding \u201cits history was clear, and there had been no technical failure\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Mi-17V5 is considered one of the \u201csafest\u201d and \u201cmost modern\u201d military transport helicopters, a retired IAF officer said. \u201cOne must wait for the detailed investigation, but the past record of the helicopter model shows it is impeccable and 100% reliable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mi-17V5 helicopter that crashed Wednesday had flown more than 26 hours without a snag after it was last serviced, according to sources. It belonged to the 109 Helicopter Unit based at the Sulur air base near Coimbatore. No system malfunction or snag was reported in the last 2-3 sorties of this particular helicopter, sources said, adding \u201cits history was clear, and there had been no technical failure\u201d. The Mi-17V5 is considered one of the \u201csafest\u201d and \u201cmost modern\u201d military transport helicopters, a retired IAF officer said. \u201cOne must wait for the detailed investigation, but the past record of the [&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-455103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455103","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=455103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}