{"id":510469,"date":"2022-07-30T10:48:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T05:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=510469"},"modified":"2022-07-30T12:36:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T07:06:29","slug":"iaf-pilots-last-call-was-to-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-pilots-last-call-was-to-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF pilot\u2019s last call was to mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 26 year old Flight Lieutenant Advitiya Bal, who lost his life in the MIG-21 crash in Rajasthan&#8217;s Barmer area late Thursday night, had a brief conversation with his mother back home in Jammu barely hours before he embarked on his last training sortie with Wing Commander M Rana from Himanchal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>Both the pilots died in the crash. Meanwhile, loss of two precious lives has once again brought back the issue of decommissioning left over squadrons of the ageing fighter jets to the centre stage.<\/p>\n<p>Raising the demand before the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Bal&#8217;s uncle Karan Jeet  Friday said,  &#8220;how long the government will keep  sacrificing the lives of young pilots. Stop using these jets&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 26 year old Flight Lieutenant Advitiya Bal, who lost his life in the MIG-21 crash in Rajasthan&#8217;s Barmer area late Thursday night, had a brief conversation with his mother back home in Jammu barely hours before he embarked on his last training sortie with Wing Commander M Rana from Himanchal Pradesh. Both the pilots died in the crash. Meanwhile, loss of two precious lives has once again brought back the issue of decommissioning left over squadrons of the ageing fighter jets to the centre stage. Raising the demand before the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Bal&#8217;s uncle Karan Jeet Friday [&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-510469","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\/510469","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=510469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}