{"id":13717,"date":"2020-03-11T12:02:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T07:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=13717"},"modified":"2020-03-11T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T07:02:50","slug":"paf-f-16-crashes-near-shakarparian-in-islamabad-during-march-23-parade-rehearsal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2020\/03\/11\/paf-f-16-crashes-near-shakarparian-in-islamabad-during-march-23-parade-rehearsal\/","title":{"rendered":"PAF F-16 crashes near Shakarparian in Islamabad during March 23 parade rehearsal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) F-16 aircraft crashed near Shakarparian, Islamabad on Wednesday during rehearsals for the March 23 parade, an air force spokesperson confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rescue teams have been dispatched towards the site of the crash. A board of inquiry has been ordered by Air Headquarters to determine the cause of accident, the statement added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement, however, made no mention of the pilots of the aircraft. \u201cWe are ascertaining the losses,\u201dPAF spokesman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shakarparian is a hill in the capital, located near the Zero Point Interchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, a PAF trainer aircraft crashed on February 12, while on a routine training mission near Takht Bhai in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa&#8217;s Mardan district. It was the third PAF training aircraft to have crashed while on a routine training mission in less than two months. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) F-16 aircraft crashed near Shakarparian, Islamabad on Wednesday during rehearsals for the March 23 parade, an air force spokesperson confirmed. Rescue teams have been dispatched towards the site of the crash. A board of inquiry has been ordered by Air Headquarters to determine the cause of accident, the statement added. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2298],"tags":[2574,2575,2573,2571,2572],"class_list":["post-13717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-23-march","tag-f-16","tag-parade","tag-plane-crash","tag-rehearsal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13720,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13717\/revisions\/13720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}