{"id":731109,"date":"2022-07-30T07:33:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T11:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=731109"},"modified":"2022-07-30T07:33:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T11:33:22","slug":"two-pilots-killed-as-soviet-era-fighter-jet-crashes-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=731109","title":{"rendered":"Two pilots killed as Soviet-era fighter jet crashes in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DefenceTalk<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1466\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/MiG-21-Lancer.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" data-full-width=\"1466\" data-full-height=\"1080\" \/>Two pilots have been killed in India after a Soviet-era fighter jet crashed during a training sortie, the air force said, heightening safety concerns after a string of incidents involving the aircraft. The MiG-21 came down on Thursday night in the desert of western Rajasthan state near the city of Barmer, the defence ministry said. [\u2026]https:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/two-pilots-killed-as-soviet-era-fighter-jet-crashes-in-india-79150\/&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/two-pilots-killed-as-soviet-era-fighter-jet-crashes-in-india-79150\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Two pilots killed as Soviet-era fighter jet crashes in India<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Air Force News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DefenceTalkTwo pilots have been killed in India after a Soviet-era fighter jet crashed during a training sortie, the air force said, heightening safety concerns after a string of incidents involving&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":731110,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/731110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}