{"id":6526,"date":"2020-07-10T15:44:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6526"},"modified":"2022-01-27T11:23:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T09:23:53","slug":"usaf-pilot-safe-after-a-29-crashes-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/usaf-pilot-safe-after-a-29-crashes-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"USAF Pilot safe after A-29 crashes in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>American pilot ejects safely from Afghan Air Force A-29 light attack plane before crash<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A U.S. Air Force pilot flying an Afghan Air Force A-29 Super Tucano safety ejected before the light attack plane crashed in northern Afghanistan, U.S. and Afghan officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot, who has not been identified, was on a training flight when the crash occurred, a spokesman for U.S. Forces-Afghanistan confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in the Doshi district of Afghanistan&#8217;s northeastern Baghlan Province around 11:30 AM local time on July 9. The crash was heard throughout Baghlan\u2019s mountainous Doshi district.<\/p>\n<p>The turboprop A-29 is the Afghan Air Force\u2019s main light attack aircraft. A-29s have two seats, but can be flown by one pilot.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan Air Force&#8217;s fleet includes nearly 30 A-29 aircraft, 10 of which are based at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, for pilot training.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan Air Force\u2019s fleet has around a total of 183 authorized aircraft including 30 MD-530 helicopters, 10 AC-208s with precision strike capability, four C-130s and 37 Mi-17 transport helicopters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American pilot ejects safely from Afghan Air Force A-29 light attack plane before crash A U.S. Air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1,125],"tags":[9,227,137,431,216,7,240],"class_list":["post-6526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","category-united-states","tag-afghanistan","tag-air-force","tag-asia","tag-c-130","tag-crash","tag-u-s","tag-usaf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Afghan-Air-Force-A-29-Super-Tucano.jpeg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1Hg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6530,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions\/6530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}