{"id":50954,"date":"2014-05-27T10:48:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T07:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=50954"},"modified":"2014-05-27T15:26:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T12:26:43","slug":"indian-jet-fighter-crashes-in-indian-kashmir-pilot-killed-50954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/indian-jet-fighter-crashes-in-indian-kashmir-pilot-killed-50954\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian jet fighter crashes in Indian Kashmir, pilot killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50956\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50956\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-50956 \" alt=\"MiG-21 fighter jet in air. File pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mig-21-Fighter-Jet-India-Nationalturk-27-540x360.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mig-21-Fighter-Jet-India-Nationalturk-27-540x360.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mig-21-Fighter-Jet-India-Nationalturk-27-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mig-21-Fighter-Jet-India-Nationalturk-27-280x186.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mig-21-Fighter-Jet-India-Nationalturk-27.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MiG-21 fighter jet in air. File pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>A fighter jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed in Indian administered Kashmir on Tuesday.<\/h1>\n<p>New Delhi, May 27\/Nationalturk \u2013 An Indian fighter aircraft crashed in Indian administered Kashmir on Tuesday morning, killing the pilot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fighter jet MiG-21, which was on a routine exercise, crashed in an open field at Mirhama in Bijbehara area, about 45 kms from Srinagar, summer capital of Indian Kashmir this morning,\u201d sources said.<\/p>\n<p>They said pilot of the fighter jet identified as Raghu Bansi was killed in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after the crash, security men rushed to the area and sealed the area where the jet fighter had crashed. A team of Indian Air Force (IAF) have also rushed to the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said MiG-21 had taken off from Technical Airport in Srinagar this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash was not known immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA probe would be launched to ascertain the cause of the crash,\u201d sources said adding body of the pilot has been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Air Force had inducted over 900 MiG-21s in its fleet during past 40 years. Many of the planes were lost in crashes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My condolences to the family, friends &amp; colleagues of the pilot killed in the MiG crash today. May his soul rest in peace,\u201d tweeted chief minister of Indian administered Kashmir Omar Abdullah.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Asia News<\/b><strong>\/ NationalTurk India News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fighter jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed in Indian administered Kashmir on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,101,14],"tags":[69708,39189,43604,45466,2546,37749,43458,69704,69705,69707,7558,50101,69709,69706,7443,44504],"class_list":["post-50954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-bijbehara","tag-chief-minister","tag-crashed","tag-iaf","tag-india","tag-indian-administered-kashmir","tag-indian-air-force","tag-indian-fighter-aircraft","tag-mig-21","tag-mirhama","tag-omar-abdullah","tag-pilot","tag-raghu-bansi","tag-routine-exercise","tag-srinagar","tag-summer-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}