{"id":183140,"date":"2020-01-09T20:46:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T19:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=183140"},"modified":"2020-01-09T20:49:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T19:49:04","slug":"military-aircraft-with-un-soldiers-onboard-crash-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=183140","title":{"rendered":"Military aircraft with UN soldiers onboard crash lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">South African military transport aircraft with UN peacekeeping soldiers on board on Thursday was severely damaged in a crash landing in Eastern Congo, a UN spokesman reported.<\/p>\n<p>Matthias Gillman, a spokesman for the UN stabilisation mission in Congo (MONUSCO) confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the four-engine turboprop C-130 Hercules aircraft overshot the runway while landing in Goma and burst into flames.<\/p>\n<p>However, the fire was quickly put out by firefighters at the airport and the 59 passengers and eight crew members escaped unharmed, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>The passengers include solders from the MONUSCO mission in the city of Beni.<\/p>\n<p>The UN has tried to stabilise the country for the past 20 years with a 15,000-strong peacekeeping force.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African military transport aircraft with UN peacekeeping soldiers on board on Thursday was severely damaged in a crash landing in Eastern Congo, a UN spokesman reported. Matthias Gillman, a spokesman for the UN stabilisation mission in Congo (MONUSCO) confirmed the incident. He said that the four-engine turboprop C-130 Hercules aircraft overshot the runway while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[8292,605,354,1795],"class_list":["post-183140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","tag-cyril-ramaphosa","tag-security-council","tag-south-africa","tag-un"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/183141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}