{"id":4687,"date":"2017-08-24T18:04:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T18:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=4687"},"modified":"2017-08-24T18:04:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T18:04:53","slug":"air-force-plane-crashes-loses-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=4687","title":{"rendered":"Air Force plane crashes, loses pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nBy <strong>OLATOKUNBO ADESANYA<\/strong>,\u00a0Director of Public\u00a0Relations and Information,\u00a0Nigerian Air Force.<br \/>\nA Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Air Beetle Aircraft today (Wednesday) crashed in Kaduna while on a mission.<br \/>\nThe only soul on board the aircraft, one of the NAF\u2019s experienced instructor pilots, was unfortunately lost during the mishap.<br \/>\nThe cause of the incident is unknown but the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) has immediately directed the constitution of a board of inquiry to determine the immediate and remote causes of the crash.<br \/>\nThe unfortunate incident is a tragic reminder of the hazards associated with the flying profession. The CAS and the entire NAF family commiserate with the relatives of the late instructor pilot.<br \/>\n&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By OLATOKUNBO ADESANYA,\u00a0Director of Public\u00a0Relations and Information,\u00a0Nigerian Air Force. A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Air Beetle Aircraft today (Wednesday) crashed in Kaduna while on a mission. The only soul on board the aircraft, one of the NAF\u2019s experienced instructor pilots, was unfortunately lost during the mishap. The cause of the incident is unknown but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687","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=4687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}