{"id":299155,"date":"2018-06-27T15:47:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=299155"},"modified":"2018-06-28T12:34:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T12:34:53","slug":"sukhoi-su-30mki-jet-crashes-in-nashik-both-pilots-ejected-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sukhoi-su-30mki-jet-crashes-in-nashik-both-pilots-ejected-safely\/","title":{"rendered":"Sukhoi Su-30MKI jet crashes in Nashik, both pilots ejected safely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-299158\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sukhoi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Sukhoi Su-30MKI under-construction fighter jet crashed on June 27 morning in Wavi-Tushi village near Pimpalgaon Baswant town, around 25 kilometres from Nashik, during a test flight. No causalities have been reported so far and both the pilots in the aircraft ejected safely before the plane hit the ground, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The aircraft crashed at\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1113957093\"><span class=\"aQJ\">11.05 am<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and the Pimpalgaon police station received information about the crash at\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1113957094\"><span class=\"aQJ\">11.15 am<\/span><\/span>, a police official reportedly said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police said that the aircraft is developed by Russia&#8217;s Sukhoi and built under license by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), had taken off from the HAL airstrip near Nashik.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Both the pilots who ejected safely before the crash were on deputation from the Indian Air Force (IAF).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0&#8220;The IAF personnel at Ojhar Air Force station, as well as police have reached the site after the incident,&#8221; police added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sources revealed that that the Sukhoi crash may have happened due to a technical glitch. A detailed probe has been ordered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More details on the crash are still awaited.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sukhoi Su-30MKI under-construction fighter jet crashed on June 27 morning in Wavi-Tushi village near Pimpalgaon Baswant town, around 25 kilometres from Nashik, during a test flight. No causalities have been reported so far and both the pilots in the aircraft ejected safely before the plane hit the ground, police said. The aircraft crashed at\u00a011.05 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":299345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2894,2047,2895,2896],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299155"}],"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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299346,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299155\/revisions\/299346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}