{"id":23828,"date":"2026-10-12T18:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/12\/training-plane-crash-near-quetta-kills-two-pilots\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T18:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:00:37","slug":"training-plane-crash-near-quetta-kills-two-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/12\/training-plane-crash-near-quetta-kills-two-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Plane Crashes Near Quetta, Killing Two Pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A training aircraft crashed while carrying out a practice flight near Quetta, the capital of Pakistan&#8217;s Balochistan province, killing both pilots on board.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Army said the incident took place on Monday following a technical fault. Major Hasnain Shehzad Hamayun, the instructor pilot, and Captain Abdul Samad, the trainee pilot, were killed in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed their sorrow over the incident and offered condolences to the families of the victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A training aircraft crashed near Quetta in Pakistan&#8217;s Balochistan province, killing two pilots after a technical fault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}