{"id":16601,"date":"2018-01-18T02:04:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T20:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=16601"},"modified":"2018-01-18T02:04:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T20:34:03","slug":"wreckage-of-ww-ii-plane-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/01\/18\/wreckage-of-ww-ii-plane-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Wreckage of WW II plane found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jan 17:<\/strong> A group of enthusiastic youths from Kimin&#8217;s Papum Pare district of Arunachal Pradesh has found wreckage of a plane in far off hills near Bogi Nodi, bordering Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.<br \/>\nThe team managed to unearth a few metal scraps from the site, which are believed to be the engine and radiator of a US Air Force plane used during the World War II (WW II) over the Himalayan range of Arunachal Pradesh.<br \/>\n&#8220;We believe it to be the wreckage of American planes used in WW II over the Himalayan range of Arunachal Pradesh, which was popular know as &#8216;hump&#8217; among the US Air Force. The location and the engine model also support our assumption,&#8221; said team leader Taba Nobin from Kimin.<br \/>\nHowever, it needs proper verification by experts, he said.<br \/>\nHe said that the lack of proper machinery and equipment restrained the team from digging the heavy metals out of the wilderness.<br \/>\n&#8220;We have managed to carry a few scraps of metal, and have marked the area with the help of GPS device and photographs,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jan 17: A group of enthusiastic youths from Kimin&#8217;s Papum Pare district of Arunachal Pradesh has found wreckage of a plane in far off hills near Bogi Nodi, bordering Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. The team managed to unearth a few metal scraps from the site, which are believed to be the engine and radiator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}