{"id":653683,"date":"2025-11-24T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=653683"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:01:19","slug":"iaf-probes-tejas-crash-in-dubai-as-low-altitude-manoeuvre-suspected-in-pilots-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-probes-tejas-crash-in-dubai-as-low-altitude-manoeuvre-suspected-in-pilots-death\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF probes Tejas crash in Dubai as low-altitude manoeuvre suspected in pilot\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tejas fighter jet crash in Dubai on Friday has left many wondering whether the Indian Air Force pilot flying it had attempted ejection at the last moment but failed to do so because he didn\u2019t have the elevation or time. <\/p>\n<p>Wing Commander Namansh Syal was killed when the jet nosedived and crashed while performing an aerobatic manoeuvre at a low altitude at the Dubai Air Show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tejas fighter jet crash in Dubai on Friday has left many wondering whether the Indian Air Force pilot flying it had attempted ejection at the last moment but failed to do so because he didn\u2019t have the elevation or time. Wing Commander Namansh Syal was killed when the jet nosedived and crashed while performing an aerobatic manoeuvre at a low altitude at the Dubai Air Show.<\/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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653683","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\/653683","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=653683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}