{"id":245611,"date":"2004-08-04T13:33:09","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/08\/defence-force-called-to-assist-chalks-airline"},"modified":"2004-08-04T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2004-08-04T17:33:09","slug":"defence-force-called-to-assist-chalks-airline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/08\/defence-force-called-to-assist-chalks-airline","title":{"rendered":"Defence Force Called To Assist Chalks Airline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Force made a unique rescue yesterday as they came to the aid of a group of tourists stranded on a sea plane in Nassau Harbour.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nWhen the plane landed in the harbour, the wheels would not go down, which prevented the plane from going up the landing ramp and left the pilot, crew and passengers stranded.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAccording to Lt. Kenneth Forbes, the commanding officer at the Defence Force Harbour Control, &#8220;We got a call that a Chalks plane carrying 13 passengers&#8230; was having difficulty.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P>He said the passengers were pretty calm about the whole incident.<br \/>\n<P><B>Source: Cara Brennen, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><br \/>\n<P><I>Editors Note: <\/I>Only a few weeks earlier Chalks had another mishap causing delays and missed connections for several passngers on two of their flights into Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sea plane had to rely on the assistance of the Defence Force when their land wheels would not come down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}