{"id":308726,"date":"2019-02-01T06:25:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T06:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308726"},"modified":"2019-02-01T06:25:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T06:25:11","slug":"mirage-2000-trainer-fighter-aircraft-crashes-in-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mirage-2000-trainer-fighter-aircraft-crashes-in-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirage 2000 trainer fighter aircraft crashes in Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308734 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IAF-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/IAF-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/IAF.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Mirage 2000 trainer fighter aircraft of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) crashed on Friday morning in Bengaluru.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, there were two pilots in the aircraft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The crash took place at HAL Airport in Bengaluru.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A pilot was killed after he landed on the wreckage of the aircraft. However, the second pilot had ejected safely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More details are awaited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On January 28, an Indian Air Force Jaguar fighter plane crashed in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh. The incident was reported after the fighter plane took off from the\u00a0Gorakhpur Air Force base.\u00a0 However, the pilot managed to eject safely.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mirage 2000 trainer fighter aircraft of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) crashed on Friday morning in Bengaluru. According to the reports, there were two pilots in the aircraft. The crash took place at HAL Airport in Bengaluru. A pilot was killed after he landed on the wreckage of the aircraft. However, the second pilot had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,2072,2014],"tags":[1343,9046,10746],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308726"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308735,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308726\/revisions\/308735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}