{"id":24930,"date":"2020-11-19T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T02:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/19\/taiwan-grounds-all-f16-fighter-jets-for-checks-after-plane-goes-missing"},"modified":"2020-11-19T11:02:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T02:02:45","slug":"taiwan-grounds-all-f16-fighter-jets-for-checks-after-plane-goes-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24930","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan grounds all F16 fighter jets for checks after plane goes missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision removes 150 planes from service, leaving the island with a limited fleet amid increased flyovers by Chinese forces<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has grounded all its F16 fighter jets for safety checks as rescuers continue to search for one that went missing during a training exercise, authorities said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The decision removes around 150 planes from Taiwan\u2019s skies, leaving the democratic island relying on a more limited fleet to warn off Chinese jets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/02\/chinese-flyovers-towards-taiwan-peaked-in-october-amid-rising-tensions\">that have been performing flyovers<\/a> at an unprecedented rate in recent months.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/19\/taiwan-grounds-all-f16-fighter-jets-for-checks-after-plane-goes-missing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision removes 150 planes from service, leaving the island with a limited fleet amid increased flyovers by Chinese forcesTaiwan has grounded all its F16 fighter jets for safety checks as rescuers continue to search for one that went missing during a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24931,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24930\/revisions\/24931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}