{"id":79744,"date":"2025-12-07T05:46:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79744"},"modified":"2025-12-07T05:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:50:12","slug":"pilots-escape-as-military-jet-crashes-in-niger-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/07\/pilots-escape-as-military-jet-crashes-in-niger-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilots Escape as Military Jet Crashes in Niger State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Nigerian Air Force (NAF), Alpha Jet crashed on Saturday near Karabonde in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State, with both pilots ejecting safely.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said the aircraft was emitting smoke before it went down around 4:10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Local outlet Lapai TV, which first broke the news, reported that the pilots parachuted to safety moments before impact.<\/p>\n<p>The NAF confirmed the crash, saying the jet developed an in-flight emergency shortly after taking off from Kainji Air Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>The pilots were said to have steered the aircraft away from residential areas before ejecting.<\/p>\n<p>Both officers are receiving medical checks, while the Air Force has set up a Board of Inquiry to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat A Nigerian Air Force (NAF), Alpha Jet crashed on Saturday near Karabonde in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State, with both pilots ejecting safely. Eyewitnesses said the aircraft was emitting smoke before it went down around 4:10 p.m. Local outlet Lapai TV, which first broke the news, reported that the pilots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79746,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79744\/revisions\/79746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}