{"id":3954,"date":"2013-08-08T23:04:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T23:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2013-10-11T01:20:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T05:20:18","slug":"ethiopian-cargo-plane-crashes-while-transporting-military-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/3954","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Cargo Plane Crashes while Transporting Military Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ethiopian-Airforce-Plane-Crashes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"274\" height=\"183\" alt=\"Ethiopian Airforce Plane Crashes\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3948\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ethiopian-Airforce-Plane-Crashes.jpg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ethiopian-Airforce-Plane-Crashes.jpg 274w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ethiopian-Airforce-Plane-Crashes-220x146.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/a>An Ethiopian, military cargo plane crash landed at a Mogadishu airport on Friday while transporting weapons, says Somali security officials<\/p>\n<p>According to witnesses, the plane exploded into flames soon after it crashed at the international airport; thick black smoke was seen rising into the sky soon afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Several loud explosions were heard after the crash indicating that there might have been munitions on board.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said that four crew members out of the six aboard the plane died in the crash; the cause of the crash has yet to be established. <\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia has so far not commented on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia has been assisting the Somali government in the battle against the Al-shabab, an Islamist militant group is attempting to impose very strict Islamic rules on the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ethiopian, military cargo plane crash landed at a Mogadishu airport on Friday while transporting weapons, says Somali security officials According to witnesses, the plane exploded into flames soon after it crashed at the international airport; thick black smoke was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/3954\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}