{"id":284608,"date":"2018-01-03T16:12:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T10:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=284608"},"modified":"2018-01-03T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T10:42:32","slug":"indian-navys-mig29k-crashes-at-goa-airport-pilot-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indian-navys-mig29k-crashes-at-goa-airport-pilot-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Navy&#039;s MIG29K crashes at Goa airport, pilot safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mig-29-k-crash-goa.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-284609 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mig-29-k-crash-goa-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"mig-29-k-crash-goa\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" data-id=\"284609\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the first incident involving MIG-29ks, the fighter aircraft with a trainee pilot crashed while taking off the runway at Goa\u2019s Dabolim airport on Jan 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Indian Navy&#8217;s tweet, the pilot was safe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Navy spokesperson said, &#8220;External fire extinguished. Efforts in hand to localise &amp; extinguish internal fire onboard the MiG 29 k aircraft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cThe pilot has ejected to safety. Fire on the aircraft is being extinguished,\u201d a Navy officer said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Mig29K aircraft with under-trainee pilot goes off runway while taking off at Goa airport. Pilot ejects to safety. Fire on aircraft being extinguished <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefenceMinIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DefenceMinIndia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpokespersonMoD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpokespersonMoD<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\u2014 SpokespersonNavy (@indiannavy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/indiannavy\/status\/948452356047364096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Normal flight operations\u00a0were suspended\u00a0due to the accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first incident involving MIG-29ks, the fighter aircraft with a trainee pilot crashed while taking off the runway at Goa\u2019s Dabolim airport on Jan 3. According to the Indian Navy&#8217;s tweet, the pilot was safe. The Navy spokesperson said, &#8220;External fire extinguished. Efforts in hand to localise &amp; extinguish internal fire onboard the MiG [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":284609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,39],"tags":[87,88,89,90,91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}