{"id":669,"date":"2016-06-14T19:23:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T23:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=669"},"modified":"2021-01-21T07:31:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T12:31:15","slug":"sudan-will-shoot-down-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/sudan-will-shoot-down-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan &#8220;will shoot down&#8221; aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2016, Sudanese radar detected several unauthorised flights by Aid Agencies using chartered IL76 aircraft. The response from the government, on this occasion the Sudanese Army, was extremely strong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We are concerned at the language being used in Khartoum and Juba<\/strong>. The most recent statement from the Sudanese Army, on 2nd June 2016, says &#8220;This action is considered a serious violation of the aviation regulations and the international laws, so we consider it as a direct affront to the Sudanese sovereignty &#8230; [we] will deal decisively with any plane failing to observe the proper procedures and entering the Sudanese airspace without prior permission&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of this year, the South Sudan government declared: &#8220;The South Sudanese government has ordered its army to <strong>shoot down any aircraft<\/strong> flying across its airspace without permission, citing the increase of unauthorised incursions into the national airspace&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s tempting to dismiss this as not related to regular airline or non-scheduled flying &#8211; including long haul overflights &#8211; but we&#8217;ve learned lessons in the last few years that the unexpected isn&#8217;t as distant a threat as it used to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2016, Sudanese radar detected several unauthorised flights by Aid Agencies using chartered IL76&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[1725,1224,343],"class_list":{"0":"post-669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-item","8":"tag-hssj","9":"tag-hsss","10":"tag-south-sudan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11543,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/11543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}