{"id":300492,"date":"2018-07-18T08:54:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T08:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300492"},"modified":"2018-07-18T09:10:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T09:10:15","slug":"mig-21-fighter-jet-crashes-in-kangra-district-of-himachal-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mig-21-fighter-jet-crashes-in-kangra-district-of-himachal-pradesh\/","title":{"rendered":"MIG-21 Fighter Jet crashes in Kangra District of Himachal Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300495 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mig-21-image-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mig-21-image-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mig-21-image-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mig-21-image-1024x600.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mig-21-image-696x408.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mig-21-image-1068x625.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mig-21-image-717x420.jpg 717w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mig-21-image.jpg 1074w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/>A MIG-21 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1352510249\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Wednesday<\/span><\/span> crashed near Mehra Palli village in Jawali area of Kangra district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to initial reports, the aircraft was coming from Pathankot air base in Punjab and crashed in Kangra district.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">SP Kangra has confirmed about the crash and said it occurred around 1:30pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The pilot of the plane was reported to be missing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, rescue teams are on their way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More details are awaited.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A MIG-21 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Wednesday crashed near Mehra Palli village in Jawali area of Kangra district. According to initial reports, the aircraft was coming from Pathankot air base in Punjab and crashed in Kangra district.\u00a0 SP Kangra has confirmed about the crash and said it occurred around 1:30pm. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2898,2009,2014],"tags":[2894,1865,3694,3692,3693],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300492"}],"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=300492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300498,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300492\/revisions\/300498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}