{"id":31461,"date":"2021-02-21T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=31461"},"modified":"2021-02-21T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T12:58:09","slug":"31461-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=31461","title":{"rendered":"Updated: (Video) He is a merciful pilot&#8230;he tried not to crash into homes; as seven die in crash near Abuja Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The herouc exploits pilot of the air force aircraft was the only bright spot in the crash that claimed seven lives. A female resident around the airport on Channels Television spoke glowingly of the pilots manoeuvers to avoid crashing into residential areas.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Pilot Was Struggling&#039;, Eye Witness Narrates How Military Plane Crashed In Abuja\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dxa5CHgRQes?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sparse details from the Air Force and the Minister of Aviation, Mr. Hadi Sirika, is calling for calm, but seven persons are dead in an air force plane crash on approach to the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210221_190428-497x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31478\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plane was believed to be on it&#8217;s way to embattled Niger State as part of efforts to secure and monitor bandirs&#8217; activities there.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his own tweet, Hadi Sirika posted<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210221_135402.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31462\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(<strong>Please note that viewers discretion is advised over audio content of video below<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/VID-20210221-WA0017-2.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The herouc exploits pilot of the air force aircraft was the only bright spot in the crash that claimed seven lives. A female resident around the airport on Channels Television spoke glowingly of the pilots manoeuvers to avoid crashing into residential areas. Sparse details from the Air Force and the Minister of Aviation, Mr. Hadi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[913,41,703],"class_list":["post-31461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-abuja","tag-air-force","tag-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}