{"id":510173,"date":"2022-07-29T11:25:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T05:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=510173"},"modified":"2022-07-29T13:34:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T08:04:30","slug":"two-pilots-of-iaf-killed-in-mig-21-aircraft-accident-near-barmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/two-pilots-of-iaf-killed-in-mig-21-aircraft-accident-near-barmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Two pilots of IAF killed in Mig-21 aircraft accident near Barmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jul 28: Two pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF) were killed on Thursday night when their twin-seater Mig-21 trainer aircraft crashed during a training sortie near Barmer in Rajasthan. <\/p>\n<p>The IAF said the aircraft was on a sortie from Utarlai air base and the accident took place at around 9:10 pm in which both the pilots lost their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The accident once again put the spotlight on the IAF&#8217;s ageing fleet of Soviet-origin Mig-21 aircraft which were involved in around 200 accidents since their first induction in the early 1960s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jul 28: Two pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF) were killed on Thursday night when their twin-seater Mig-21 trainer aircraft crashed during a training sortie near Barmer in Rajasthan. The IAF said the aircraft was on a sortie from Utarlai air base and the accident took place at around 9:10 pm in which both the pilots lost their lives. The accident once again put the spotlight on the IAF&#8217;s ageing fleet of Soviet-origin Mig-21 aircraft which were involved in around 200 accidents since their first induction in the early 1960s.<\/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":[180,147,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-greater-kashmir","category-greater-kashmir","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510173","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=510173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}