{"id":60069,"date":"2018-02-16T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T11:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=60069"},"modified":"2018-02-16T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T11:13:22","slug":"2-martyred-in-western-turkey-military-aircraft-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/2-martyred-in-western-turkey-military-aircraft-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"2 martyred in western Turkey military aircraft crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Two pilots were martyred when a military training plane crashed in Turkey\u2019s Aegean region on Friday, according to the Turkish General Staff.<\/h2>\n<p>According to a General Staff statement, the plane crashed in Cigli in the Izmir province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur training aircraft, which left the Cigli\/Izmir 2nd Main Jet Base Command today as part of a planned training flight, crashed. Two of our valiant soldiers were martyred,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The SF-260D training plane took off at 10.26 a.m. (0726GMT), while contact with the aircraft was lost at around 10.49 a.m. (0749GMT), it added.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued by the Izmir governor&#8217;s office, the plane wreckage and the bodies of the two pilots were found in a vacant area in the Tuzcullu neighborhood, three kilometers north of the base.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason for the crash of the training aircraft which departed from the 2nd Main Jet Base Command has not yet been determined,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation has begun with a team already on the scene, the General Staff said.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two pilots were martyred when a military training plane crashed in Turkey\u2019s Aegean region on Friday, according to the Turkish General Staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,173],"tags":[4559,77182,17239],"class_list":["post-60069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-turkey-headlines","tag-plane-crash","tag-turkey","tag-turkish-general-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60069","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}