{"id":455543,"date":"2021-12-10T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T06:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=455543"},"modified":"2021-12-10T13:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T07:44:42","slug":"coonoor-helicopter-crash-second-tragedy-involving-top-of-line-mi-17v5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coonoor-helicopter-crash-second-tragedy-involving-top-of-line-mi-17v5\/","title":{"rendered":"Coonoor helicopter crash: Second tragedy involving top-of-line Mi-17V5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday\u2019s tragic Mi-17V5 crash near Coonoor was the second high-profile accident involving the Indian Air Force\u2019s latest helicopter inducted in 2012, and the air force currently operates around 145 such Russian-origin choppers that are known to be advanced, reliable and safe, IAF officials familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The twin-engine Mi-17V5 is the latest version of Mi-17 helicopter operated by IAF. India contracted a total of 151 Mi-17V5 helicopters from Russia in two separate deals. At least six Mi-17V5s have been lost in accidents since their induction began around a decade ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday\u2019s tragic Mi-17V5 crash near Coonoor was the second high-profile accident involving the Indian Air Force\u2019s latest helicopter inducted in 2012, and the air force currently operates around 145 such Russian-origin choppers that are known to be advanced, reliable and safe, IAF officials familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The twin-engine Mi-17V5 is the latest version of Mi-17 helicopter operated by IAF. India contracted a total of 151 Mi-17V5 helicopters from Russia in two separate deals. At least six Mi-17V5s have been lost in accidents since their induction began around a decade ago.<\/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-455543","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\/455543","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=455543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}