{"id":510513,"date":"2022-07-30T11:11:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T05:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=510513"},"modified":"2022-07-30T13:00:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T07:30:02","slug":"advitiya-bal-joined-iaf-to-fight-enemies-not-die-in-plane-crash-family-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/advitiya-bal-joined-iaf-to-fight-enemies-not-die-in-plane-crash-family-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Advitiya Bal joined IAF to fight enemies, not die in plane crash: Family member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu, Jul 29: A family member of Flight Lieutenant Advitiya Bal, who was one of the two IAF pilots killed in a plane crash on Thursday, expressed regret over the way he died while flying an &#8220;ailing&#8221; aircraft instead of &#8220;fighting enemies&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>He also urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to immediately retire the entire fleet of ageing MiG-21 jets so that no more young lives are lost.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Air Force (IAF) pilots were killed Thursday night when their twin-seater MiG-21 trainer aircraft crashed during a training sortie near Barmer. Wing Commander M Rana from Himachal Pradesh was the second pilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu, Jul 29: A family member of Flight Lieutenant Advitiya Bal, who was one of the two IAF pilots killed in a plane crash on Thursday, expressed regret over the way he died while flying an &#8220;ailing&#8221; aircraft instead of &#8220;fighting enemies&#8221;. He also urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to immediately retire the entire fleet of ageing MiG-21 jets so that no more young lives are lost. The Indian Air Force (IAF) pilots were killed Thursday night when their twin-seater MiG-21 trainer aircraft crashed during a training sortie near Barmer. Wing Commander M Rana from [&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":[180,147,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510513","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\/510513","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=510513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}