{"id":14477,"date":"2019-08-04T21:35:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T20:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/cape-to-cairo-homemade-plane-project-creators-die-in-tanzania-crash\/"},"modified":"2019-08-05T12:18:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T11:18:15","slug":"cape-to-cairo-homemade-plane-project-creators-die-in-tanzania-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/cape-to-cairo-homemade-plane-project-creators-die-in-tanzania-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Pilots Die In Tanzania Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two pilots who were part of the support team for the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/south-african-teens-fly-from-cape-to-cairo-in-homemade-plane\/\">12,000km kit plane<\/a> flight from South Africa to Egypt have tragically died. Des Werner and Werner Froneman flew a support plane as far as Tabora airport, however, on Saturday when leaving for the return journey they reported engine failure soon after taking off.<\/p>\n<p>A sad epitaph to a great achievement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Quite sad. Do something with your dreams, people. RIP Des Werner and Werner Froneman \ud83d\ude22 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nFdpnc4ivM\">https:\/\/t.co\/nFdpnc4ivM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Richard Ali. (@richardalijos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richardalijos\/status\/1158127647953760256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-49226128\" rel=\"nofollow\">More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two pilots who were part of the support team for the recent 12,000km kit plane flight from South Africa to Egypt have tragically died. Des Werner and Werner Froneman flew a support plane as far as Tabora airport, however, on Saturday when leaving for the return journey they reported engine failure soon after taking off&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1304,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-news","category-worldwide-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14512,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14477\/revisions\/14512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}