{"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 Commissioner of Police (City) Manish Shandilya said the pilot ejected safely and there were no reports of casualties or damage to civilian property. According to officials, the aircraft went [&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":{"0":"post-64869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"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}]}}