{"id":40477,"date":"2015-02-01T10:35:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T02:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=40477"},"modified":"2015-02-01T11:01:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T03:01:56","slug":"philippine-air-force-plane-crashes-at-sea-killing-2-pilots-on-training-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/01\/philippine-air-force-plane-crashes-at-sea-killing-2-pilots-on-training-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine air force plane crashes at sea, killing 2 pilots on training flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40478\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40478\" style=\"width: 1029px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SF_260_MARCHETTI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40478\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SF_260_MARCHETTI.jpg\" alt=\"Philippine Air Force SF.260 used as primary trainer aircraft. Philippine Air Force \/ Wikimedia Commons.\" width=\"1029\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SF_260_MARCHETTI.jpg 1029w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SF_260_MARCHETTI-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SF_260_MARCHETTI-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1029px) 100vw, 1029px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippine Air Force SF.260 used as primary trainer aircraft. Philippine Air Force \/ Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014The\u00a0Philippine\u00a0air force said one of its Italian-made light planes crashed at sea on a training mission Saturday, killing the two pilots.<\/p>\n<p>The single-prop SF-260FH was flying in formation with two other planes on a training flight when it crashed off Nasugbo township in Batangas province south of Manila, said air force spokesman Lt. Col. Enrico Canaya.<\/p>\n<p>The planes also were taking part in activities commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the province from the Japanese toward the end of World War II, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said rescuers recovered the bodies of the pilot and the co-pilot about 300 metres (yards) from the shore.<\/p>\n<p>Canaya also said that air force commander Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Delgado has ordered about 16 remaining SF-260FH planes grounded pending an investigation into the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Some of training planes have been modified for combat missions against insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Philippines\u00a0military, one of the most poorly-equipped armed forces in Asia, is dealing with Muslim extremist and communist insurgents as well as incursions from China into waters it claims in the disputed South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>It plans to acquire a dozen FA-50 fighter jets from South Korea to beef up its air force by 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014The\u00a0Philippine\u00a0air force said one of its Italian-made light planes crashed at sea on a training mission Saturday, killing the two &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":40478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40477","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=40477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}