{"id":568638,"date":"2023-04-06T12:57:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T07:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=568638"},"modified":"2023-04-06T13:03:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T07:33:46","slug":"south-african-pilot-lauded-for-safe-emergency-landing-after-deadly-cobra-rears-its-head-in-cockpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/south-african-pilot-lauded-for-safe-emergency-landing-after-deadly-cobra-rears-its-head-in-cockpit\/","title":{"rendered":"South African pilot lauded for safe emergency landing after deadly cobra rears its head in cockpit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African pilot Rudolf Erasmus has been lauded by flight experts for a safe emergency landing after a highly venomous Cape cobra reared its head in the cockpit mid-flight.<\/p>\n<p>Erasmus, who has been flying for the past five years, maintained his nerve as the cobra slid back under his seat as soon as he saw it.<\/p>\n<p>He was flying a small aircraft with four passengers on Monday morning, from Worcester to Nelspruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African pilot Rudolf Erasmus has been lauded by flight experts for a safe emergency landing after a highly venomous Cape cobra reared its head in the cockpit mid-flight. Erasmus, who has been flying for the past five years, maintained his nerve as the cobra slid back under his seat as soon as he saw it. He was flying a small aircraft with four passengers on Monday morning, from Worcester to Nelspruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568638","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}