{"id":198820,"date":"2016-03-14T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=198820"},"modified":"2016-03-14T14:11:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T14:11:09","slug":"two-uae-pilots-killed-as-jet-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=198820","title":{"rendered":"Two UAE pilots killed as jet crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two Emirati pilots were killed when their fighter jet crashed during a mission against Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Saudi-led coalition has said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A coalition statement said the plane had suffered a technical failure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UAE is part of the coalition which has been carrying out air strikes since March 2015 in support of ousted President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is the first known loss of an Emirati jet in the conflict in which some 6,000 people have been killed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About half of the deaths have been civilian, the UN says.<br \/>\nThe plane crashed in a mountainous area near the southern city of Aden, local officials and witnesses said.<br \/>\nThe UAE Air Force operates both F-16 and Mirage 2000 fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In December, a Bahraini F-16 crashed in Saudi Arabia due to a &#8220;technical error&#8221;, while in May a Moroccan warplane came down over Yemen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both jets were taking part in the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen, codenamed Operation Restoring Hope.<br \/>\nThe UN has criticised both the coalition campaign and the Houthis over the scale of civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Emirati pilots were killed when their fighter jet crashed during a mission against Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Saudi-led coalition has said. A coalition statement said the plane had suffered a technical failure. The UAE is part of the coalition which has been carrying out air strikes since March 2015 in support of ousted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}