{"id":153628,"date":"2026-06-27T08:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153628"},"modified":"2026-06-27T08:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:48:11","slug":"china-confirms-death-of-pilot-in-citic-tower-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153628","title":{"rendered":"China confirms death of pilot in Citic Tower plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe pilot of a light sport aircraft that hit Beijing\u2019s tallest skyscraper on Friday died.<br \/>\nIn a statement on Saturday, the Chaoyang district government said that only the pilot was in the two-seater plane when it hit Citic Tower.<br \/>\nIn addition, 13 people were injured in the incident.<br \/>\nThe statement, issued after hours of silence, said the crash took place at 5:55 pm Saturday and that the circumstances surrounding the crash were still under investigation. It did not name the building and only&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3358600\/china-confirms-death-pilot-citic-tower-plane-crash?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe pilot of a light sport aircraft that hit Beijing\u2019s tallest skyscraper on Friday died. In a statement on Saturday, the Chaoyang district government&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153628"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}