{"id":322347,"date":"2020-04-16T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322347"},"modified":"2020-04-16T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T07:29:00","slug":"iaf-cheetah-helicopter-makes-emergency-landing-on-up-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/iaf-cheetah-helicopter-makes-emergency-landing-on-up-expressway\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF Cheetah helicopter makes emergency landing on UP expressway"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-322348 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/iaf-cheetah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/iaf-cheetah.jpg 644w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/iaf-cheetah-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/iaf-cheetah-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/iaf-cheetah-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/iaf-cheetah-485x360.jpg 485w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/iaf-cheetah-565x420.jpg 565w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/>An Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter made an emergency landing on Thursday morning on an expressway in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Baghpat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The helicopter was on its way to Chandigarh on a COVID-19 task of carrying test samples, the IAF said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ministry of Defence in an official release said, \u201cA Cheetah helicopter was proceeding from Hindon to Chandigarh on a COVID-19 task of carrying test samples of Leh. Approximately 3 NM out of Hindon, aircraft developed technical snag and carried out safe landing on Outer Ring Road highway.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe actions taken by the pilots were prompt and correct. No damage to any property has been reported,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRecovery aircraft was launched immediately from Hindon. The aircraft was rectified and recovered back promptly and safely at Hindon,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter made an emergency landing on Thursday morning on an expressway in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Baghpat. The helicopter was on its way to Chandigarh on a COVID-19 task of carrying test samples, the IAF said. Ministry of Defence in an official release said, \u201cA Cheetah helicopter was proceeding from Hindon to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":322348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[12930,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322347"}],"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=322347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322349,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322347\/revisions\/322349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}