{"id":309842,"date":"2019-02-27T10:36:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T10:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309842"},"modified":"2019-02-27T10:55:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T10:55:28","slug":"iaf-pilot-missing-after-mig-21-crash-mea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/iaf-pilot-missing-after-mig-21-crash-mea\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF Pilot Missing after MiG-21 crash: MEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309843 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190227-153710__01-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190227-153710__01-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190227-153710__01-768x408.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190227-153710__01-696x370.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190227-153710__01-790x420.jpg 790w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190227-153710__01.jpg 863w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/>The government on Wednesday confirmed that an Indian pilot is missing in action after a Mig-21 Bison fighter plane was lost while engaging with Pakistani jets after they violated Indian airspace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said, \u201cthe Pakistan Air Force was detected, and the Indian Air Force responded instantly. In that aerial engagement, One Pakistan Air Force fighter aircraft was shot down by Indian Air Force, we have unfortunately lost one MiG 21. The Pakistani aircraft was seen by ground forces falling from the sky on the Pakistan side. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The pilot is missing in action. Pakistan has claimed that he is in their custody. We are ascertaining the facts.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cIndia had informed about Counter-Terrorism (CT) action it took yesterday against a training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in Pakistan based on credible evidence that JeM intended to launch more attacks. Against this Counter Terrorism Action, Pakistan has responded this morning by using its Air Force to target military installations on the Indian side. Due to our high state of readiness and alertness, Pakistan\u2019s attempts were foiled successfully, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">However, the Pakistani Army today claimed that they have shot down two Indian Air Force aircraft and have arrested two pilots of the IAF.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Wednesday confirmed that an Indian pilot is missing in action after a Mig-21 Bison fighter plane was lost while engaging with Pakistani jets after they violated Indian airspace. MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said, \u201cthe Pakistan Air Force was detected, and the Indian Air Force responded instantly. In that aerial engagement, One Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[574,10953,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309842"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309846,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309842\/revisions\/309846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}