{"id":64869,"date":"2026-01-21T09:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/iaf-training-aircraft-crashes-into-pond-in-george-town-pilot-ejects-safely\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:12:21","slug":"iaf-training-aircraft-crashes-into-pond-in-george-town-pilot-ejects-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/iaf-training-aircraft-crashes-into-pond-in-george-town-pilot-ejects-safely\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF Training Aircraft Crashes into Pond in George Town, Pilot Ejects Safely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <strong>Indian Air Force (IAF) training aircraft<\/strong> crashed into a <strong>pond near KP College ground<\/strong> in the <strong>George Town area<\/strong> here on <strong>Wednesday<\/strong>, officials said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deputy Commissioner of Police (City) Manish Shandilya<\/strong> said the pilot <strong>ejected safely<\/strong> and there were <strong>no reports of casualties or damage to civilian property<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the aircraft went down after its <strong>engine developed a sudden technical snag<\/strong> during the training sortie.<\/p>\n<p>The area has been <strong>cordoned off<\/strong> by authorities, and an <strong>investigation has been launched<\/strong> to ascertain the exact cause of the crash, officials added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Air Force (IAF) training aircraft crashed into a pond near KP College ground in the George Town area here on Wednesday, officials said. Deputy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64869","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}