{"id":24650,"date":"2026-10-24T18:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/24\/philippines-training-plane-crash-four-pilots-killed\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T18:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T18:30:15","slug":"philippines-training-plane-crash-four-pilots-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/24\/philippines-training-plane-crash-four-pilots-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Philippine training planes crash, killing four pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine Air Force said on Saturday that four pilots were killed when two SF-260 aircraft crashed during a training flight near an air base in Lipa City, Batangas province. The incident occurred on Friday at 3:51 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p>Following the incident, all SF-260 flights by the Philippine Air Force were temporarily suspended to investigate the cause of the crash. The SF-260 is a light aircraft used mainly for pilot training.<\/p>\n<p>The accident was similar to one that occurred on May 20 this year, when one of the aircraft of this type crashed in the mountainous Benguet region, killing two pilots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four pilots were killed when two SF-260 training planes crashed in the Philippines, prompting a temporary suspension of all flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24650","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=24650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}