{"id":21570,"date":"2010-08-27T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T14:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=21570"},"modified":"2010-08-27T16:10:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T14:10:59","slug":"greek-fighter-jets-collide-in-mid-air-pilot-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/08\/27\/greek-fighter-jets-collide-in-mid-air-pilot-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek fighter jets collide in mid-air, pilot killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS \u2014 <strong>Two Greek fighter jets collided in mid-air on Thursday, the defence ministry said, killing one of the pilots and leaving two other crew injured.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The collision between the two F-16 planes, a one- and two-seater respectively, happened south of the island of Crete during training in air fighting involving six aircraft, the air force high command said.<\/p>\n<p>A fisherman engaged in a search of the area found the body of one pilot a few hours later, state television reported.<\/p>\n<p>The two others were plucked from the sea after ejecting, one of them with serious injuries to his head and one lung.<\/p>\n<p>The jets were from Souda air force base in the northwest of Crete, the defence ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Greek fighter pilots are in constant readiness over the Aegean Sea due to frequent incursions by Turkish aircraft into Greek-controlled airspace disputed by Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar incident in 2006, a Greek pilot was killed when his plane collided with a Turkish jet during one of the regular mock dogfights in the area.<\/p>\n<p>26.08.2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS \u2014 Two Greek fighter jets collided in mid-air on Thursday, the defence ministry said, killing one of the pilots and leaving two other crew injured. The collision between the two F-16 planes, a one- and two-seater respectively, happened south of the island of Crete during training in air fighting involving six aircraft, the air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":776961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[3504],"class_list":["post-21570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece","tag-mock-dogfights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}