{"id":475180,"date":"2022-03-14T10:47:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T05:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=475180"},"modified":"2022-03-14T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T05:53:55","slug":"1-pilot-killed-in-army-chopper-crash-in-north-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/1-pilot-killed-in-army-chopper-crash-in-north-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"1 pilot killed in army chopper crash in north Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Army helicopter on its way to pick up sick BSF personnel crashed near the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir&#8217;s Gurez Sector on Friday, killing its co-pilot and critically injuring the pilot, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>It crashed around 11:30 am with officials saying that it drifted away while descending and tumbled into a &#8216;nallah&#8217; flowing nearby.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Cheetah&#8217; helicopter was undertaking a rescue sortie to evacuate a sick Border Security Force (BSF) jawan deployed in the forward area in the mountainous region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An Army Cheetah helicopter crashed in the Baraub area of Gurez in Bandipora district this afternoon while on a routine mission to evacuate an ailing soldier from a forward post,&#8221; Srinagar-based defence spokesman Col Emron Musavi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Army helicopter on its way to pick up sick BSF personnel crashed near the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir&#8217;s Gurez Sector on Friday, killing its co-pilot and critically injuring the pilot, officials said. It crashed around 11:30 am with officials saying that it drifted away while descending and tumbled into a &#8216;nallah&#8217; flowing nearby. The &#8216;Cheetah&#8217; helicopter was undertaking a rescue sortie to evacuate a sick Border Security Force (BSF) jawan deployed in the forward area in the mountainous region. &#8220;An Army Cheetah helicopter crashed in the Baraub area of Gurez in Bandipora district this afternoon while [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475180","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=475180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}