{"id":99336,"date":"2017-04-21T04:45:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=99336"},"modified":"2017-04-21T04:45:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:45:50","slug":"aircraft-carrying-lorenzana-ranking-afp-officials-in-pagasa-island-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/21\/aircraft-carrying-lorenzana-ranking-afp-officials-in-pagasa-island-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft carrying Lorenzana, ranking AFP officials in Pagasa Island challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_99337\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99337\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/18056789_277919215987232_6425442713608791777_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99337\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/18056789_277919215987232_6425442713608791777_n.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Coast Guard elements have challenged the military transport planes carrying Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Gen. Eduardo Ano to Pagasa Island Friday morning. (Photo: Delfin Lorenzana\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/18056789_277919215987232_6425442713608791777_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/18056789_277919215987232_6425442713608791777_n-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/18056789_277919215987232_6425442713608791777_n-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese Coast Guard elements have challenged the military transport planes carrying Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Gen. Eduardo Ano to Pagasa Island Friday morning. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dellorenzana\/photos\/pcb.277919475987206\/277919215987232\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Delfin Lorenzana\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PAGASA ISLAND\u2014Chinese Coast Guard elements have challenged the military transport planes carrying Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Gen. Eduardo Ano to Pagasa Island Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Pilots of the Airbus Military C-295 and Lockheed C-130 &#8220;Hercules&#8221; cargo aircraft received the challenge from Subi Reef, a Chinese-owned feature, some 30 to 40 nautical miles away from Pagasa Island.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We replied that we are flying over Philippine territory,&#8221; Lorenzana said when asked for details regarding the Chinese challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense chief added that the challenge is automatic and part of the protocol of any country claiming jurisdiction on particular area especially when ships and aircraft passes through it.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the challenge, nothing untoward happened, Lorenzana stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Other ranking officials aboard the two military aircraft are Army commander Lt. Gen. Glorioso Miranda and Western Command head Lt. Gen. Raul Del Rosario.<\/p>\n<p>The former left Villamor Air Base, Pasay City around 6 a.m. and arrived in Pagasa Island around 8 a.m. along with other members of the media selected for this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAGASA ISLAND\u2014Chinese Coast Guard elements have challenged the military transport planes carrying Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and Armed Forces of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":99337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[3244,18209,12748,12727],"class_list":["post-99336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-armed-forces-of-the-philippines","tag-chinese-coast-guard","tag-delfin-lorenzana","tag-eduardo-ano","mauthors-priam-f-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99336","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}