{"id":510451,"date":"2022-07-30T10:47:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T05:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=510451"},"modified":"2022-07-30T12:35:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T07:05:26","slug":"mig-pilots-steered-jet-away-from-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mig-pilots-steered-jet-away-from-village\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018MiG pilots steered jet away from village\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two pilots of the ill-fated Mig-21 trainer aircraft, which crashed in Barmer on Thursday night, displayed exemplary presence of mind by steering the plane away from a village by two to three kms before it crashed into a sand dune, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The two pilots were identified as Wing Commander M Rana and Flight Lieutenant Advitiya Bal, the IAF said on Friday.  Rana hailed from Himachal Pradesh and Bal from Jammu.  The two pilots were killed when their twin-seater MiG-21 aircraft crashed during a training sortie. <\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest the two pilots saved scores of civilians of Bhimda village by diverting the aircraft from the populated area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two pilots of the ill-fated Mig-21 trainer aircraft, which crashed in Barmer on Thursday night, displayed exemplary presence of mind by steering the plane away from a village by two to three kms before it crashed into a sand dune, according to reports. The two pilots were identified as Wing Commander M Rana and Flight Lieutenant Advitiya Bal, the IAF said on Friday. Rana hailed from Himachal Pradesh and Bal from Jammu. The two pilots were killed when their twin-seater MiG-21 aircraft crashed during a training sortie. Reports suggest the two pilots saved scores of civilians of Bhimda village [&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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510451","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=510451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}