{"id":51595,"date":"2000-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-05-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/95ea8e27-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2000-05-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-05-18T00:00:00","slug":"95ea8e38-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/95ea8e38-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"PIA aircraft in minor landing accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pacific Islands Aviation aircraft carrying at least 15 passengers met a minor accident while landing on the Saipan domestic airport yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency airport personnel were dispatched immediately after the aircraft safely landed on the domestic airport. Officials said the plane&#8217;s right tire blew off upon touching the airport runway.<\/p>\n<p>None of the 15 passengers on board suffered any injury but PIA personnel and officials advised them to leave their contact details for possible medical check up.<\/p>\n<p>Among those who were in the flight were Education Board Member Marja Lee Taitano and some members of the Census 2000 team from Rota, according to Ports Authority officials.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports said the aircraft was trying to land on the Saipan domestic airport from Rota at about 9:00 a.m. when its right tire blew off upon touching the runway.<\/p>\n<p>The accident, which almost caused the aircraft to trip off, delayed its flight from Saipan to Tinian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pacific Islands Aviation aircraft carrying at least 15 passengers met a minor accident while landing on the Saipan domestic airport yesterday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}