{"id":469893,"date":"2022-02-22T09:38:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T04:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=469893"},"modified":"2022-02-22T11:42:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T06:12:58","slug":"f-5-fighter-plane-crashes-kills-3-in-irans-northwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/f-5-fighter-plane-crashes-kills-3-in-irans-northwest\/","title":{"rendered":"F-5 fighter plane crashes, kills 3 in Iran&#8217;s northwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fighter jet has crashed in northwest Iran and killed two pilots and a civilians, the country&#8217;s state-run news agency reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>IRNA said the F-5 fighter crashed into a stadium in residential area of Tabriz and two pilots and a citizen were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are investigating the disaster, the report said. <\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s air force has an assortment of U.S.-made military aircraft purchased before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It also has Russian-made MiG and Sukhoi planes. Decades of Western sanctions have made it hard to maintain the aging fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fighter jet has crashed in northwest Iran and killed two pilots and a civilians, the country&#8217;s state-run news agency reported Monday. IRNA said the F-5 fighter crashed into a stadium in residential area of Tabriz and two pilots and a citizen were killed. Authorities are investigating the disaster, the report said. Iran&#8217;s air force has an assortment of U.S.-made military aircraft purchased before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It also has Russian-made MiG and Sukhoi planes. Decades of Western sanctions have made it hard to maintain the aging fleet.<\/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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469893","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=469893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}