{"id":59996,"date":"2020-01-28T11:06:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T03:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59996"},"modified":"2020-01-28T11:18:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T03:18:17","slug":"us-military-confirms-air-force-aircraft-crash-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59996","title":{"rendered":"US military confirms Air Force aircraft crash in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The US military confirmed that a US Air Force aircraft crashed in Afghanistan on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Goldfein, chief of staff of the US Air Force, said that an Air Force E-11A Battlefield Airborne Communications Node aircraft went down in territory currently under the Taliban control in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William Leggett, a spokesman for the US military in Afghanistan, also confirmed the incident, saying the cause of crash is under investigation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There are no indications the crash was caused by enemy fire,&#8221; Leggett said in a statement posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid reportedly claimed earlier in the day that a US Air Force plane crashed in the Ghazni province in eastern Afghanistan. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The US military confirmed that a US Air Force aircraft crashed in Afghanistan on Monday. David Goldfein, chief of staff of the US Air Force, said that an Air Force E-11A Battlefield Airborne Communications Node aircraft went down in territory currently under the Taliban control in Afghanistan. William Leggett, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":60003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59996"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}