{"id":20994,"date":"2014-08-07T20:59:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T12:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=20994"},"modified":"2014-08-08T16:16:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T08:16:46","slug":"sokol-crashes-after-being-battered-by-strong-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/07\/sokol-crashes-after-being-battered-by-strong-winds\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sokol&#8217; crashes after being battered by strong winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21160\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sokol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21160\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sokol.jpg\" alt=\"(wikipedia photo)\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sokol.jpg 450w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sokol-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) announced that one of the two Air Force W-3A &#8220;Sokol&#8221; combat utility helicopters crashed upon its take-off at the Army\u2019s 103rd Brigade Headquarters based in Camp Ranao in Marawi City Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Sokol&#8221; chopper crashed about 2:23 p.m. due to loss of control when heavy winds struck the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter was supposed to serve as backup helicopter for Defense Secretary Voltaire T. Gazmin and Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel &#8220;Mar&#8221; Roxas II, who were aboard the other aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The other chopper carrying the two Cabinet secretaries has safely arrived in its destination at Langundingan Airport, Cagayan de Oro City about 3:13 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the crash, one crew from the chopper and a civilian were wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The AFP hopes for the fast recovery of those wounded who are now being treated with proper medical care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) announced that one of the two Air Force W-3A &#8220;Sokol&#8221; combat &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-priam-f-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}