{"id":21288,"date":"2025-01-29T16:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/aircraft-crash-kills-18-in-south-sudan\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T16:06:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:36:30","slug":"aircraft-crash-kills-18-in-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/aircraft-crash-kills-18-in-south-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft crash kills 18 in South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5353323.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The plane carrying 21 people, including crew members, crashed while departing from South Sudan&#8217;s Unity Oil Field, killing 18 people and leaving three others in &#8220;critical condition,&#8221; Radio Miraya reported, according to Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n<p>It added the pilot and co-pilot were among the dead.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Gatwech Bipal, information and communication minister of Unity State, had said the aircraft carried 20 people and crashed soon after taking off from an airport in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft was scheduled to travel to the capital Juba.<\/p>\n<p>Bipal, however, later said the aircraft carried 21 people of whom three had survived.<\/p>\n<p>SD\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/227597\/Aircraft-crash-kills-18-in-South-Sudan\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plane carrying 21 people, including crew members, crashed while departing from South Sudan&#8217;s Unity Oil Field, killing 18 people and leaving three others in &#8220;critical condition,&#8221; Radio Miraya reported, according to Anadolu Agency. It added the pilot and co-pilot were among the dead. Earlier, Gatwech Bipal, information and communication minister of Unity State, had &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}