{"id":45,"date":"2026-06-13T20:57:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/?p=45"},"modified":"2026-06-13T20:57:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:27:58","slug":"an-32-transport-crash-in-jorhat-kills-five-iaf-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"AN-32 transport crash in Jorhat kills five IAF personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An AN-32 transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force met with an accident at the Jorhat Air Force station in Assam on Saturday morning on 13<sup>th<\/sup> June 2026 during a routine sortie.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Air Force (IAF) has expressed grief over the loss of five personnel in the accident.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, IAF informed the Squadron Leader Prashant Singh, Flight Lieutenant Shubham Kumar, Sergeant Jitendra Sharma, Agniveervayu Khemaram Kumawat and Agniveervayu Danish Alam have lost lives in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The air force extended its condolences to the bereaved families and said that it stands firmly with them in this hour of grief.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force said that crash site management and initial enquiries are on at this time.<\/p>\n<p>It has also requested everyone to refrain from speculation till preliminary results are not in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a routine sortie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[25,26,24,27],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force","category-defence","tag-an-32","tag-crash","tag-iaf","tag-jorhat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defencetimes.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}