{"id":139894,"date":"2016-05-23T10:22:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T07:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/two-more-noratlas-aircraft-have-been-found\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T10:22:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T07:22:24","slug":"two-more-noratlas-aircraft-have-been-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/two-more-noratlas-aircraft-have-been-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more Noratlas Aircraft have been found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">It was stated that Greek Cypriot authorities have found two more Noratlas type transport aircraft, which belonged to Greek Air Forces, at the old Nicosia International Airport in the buffer zone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Greek Cypriot daily Politis reported that a person who was working at Nicosia Airport as an electrician in 1974 informed Greek Cypriot Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Issues, Fotis Fotiu and as a result of his information, the two Noratlas aircraft have been found.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Politis also reported that the two Noratlas type aircraft which took part in the \u201cNiki\u201d operation conducted on 21 July 1974 and were brought down by friendly fire with their crew and commandoes who succeeded in landing \u00a0but it was not possible to fly again due to the damage<s>\u00a0 <\/s>\u00a0and the \u00a0aircraft were buried after an armed conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">It was also stated that excavations to determine the identities of those who lost their lives on the Noratlas aircraft, which was brought down by friendly fire and buried at the Greek military cemetery in 1974, are still continuing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was stated that Greek Cypriot authorities have found two more Noratlas type transport aircraft, which<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}