{"id":269011,"date":"2015-11-04T18:04:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T14:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=269011"},"modified":"2015-11-04T18:04:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T14:04:22","slug":"five-armenian-crew-members-killed-in-plane-crash-in-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/11\/04\/five-armenian-crew-members-killed-in-plane-crash-in-south-sudan.html","title":{"rendered":"Five Armenian Crew Members Killed in Plane Crash in South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">An Antonov-12 cargo plane crashed on Wednesday not long after taking off from the airport in Juba, South Sudan&#39;s capital. According to preliminary reports, the plane was carrying twelve passengers and a crew of six which was comprised of five Armenian and one Russian citizens. South Sudan&#39;s presidential spokesperson told reporters that three South Sudanese nationals, including a child, survived the crash. Meanwhile, the death toll has reached 41 since the plane crashed on local fish farmers.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe plane, as stated by officials, belonged to local Allied Services Ltd airline; however, according to Russian media reports, in 2014 the aircraft was purchased and has since been operated by Asia Airways, a Tajik company.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tArmenia&#39;s General Department of Civil Aviation (GDCA) confirmed in a statement that the plane belonged to Asia Airways. &ldquo;According to preliminary data, there were five Armenian nationals in the crew. The Department has contacted the management of Tajikstan&#39;s civil aviation in order to establish the nationality of the crew members who, in any case, were not issued a flight crew licence by the GDCA.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia&#8217;s General Department of Civil Aviation (GDCA) confirmed in a statement that the plane belonged to Asia Airways. \u201cAccording to preliminary data, there were five Armenian nationals in the crew. The Department has&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22446,11157,20560],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}