{"id":856,"date":"2016-03-14T01:17:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T06:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=856"},"modified":"2016-03-14T01:17:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T06:17:45","slug":"iron-maiden-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"Iron Maiden plane damaged at airport in Santiago, Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iron Maiden’s plane was badly damaged in an airport accident while taxing in\u00a0Santiago, Chile\u00a0on Saturday morning.\u00a0The band\u00a0and its equipment were not on board the aircraft at the time of the accident, and were forced to make alternate\u00a0plans to get to the\u00a0next stop on their tour\u00a0in Cordoba, Argentina. The airplane, dubbed “Ed Force One” after the bands mascot, was being towed at the time for refueling at Santiago’s\u00a0Comodoro Arturo Merino Ben\u00edtez International Airport. According to reports, a pin that connects the pull bar from the plane to the towing tug came out after the plane had started being moved. This meant that the tug was no longer able to steer the aircraft, and it\u00a0crashed into\u00a0the tug that was towing it. This caused severe damage\u00a0to the planes undercarriage\u00a0and\u00a0engines. Two members of the ground\u00a0crew were reportedly\u00a0injured in the incident, and were taken to a local area hospital.<\/p>\n

Iron Maiden tour will continue as scheduled<\/h2>\n

The band\u00a0was in\u00a0Santiago\u00a0for a performance at the\u00a0Estadio Nacional Julio Mart\u00ednez Pr\u00e1danos Friday night,\u00a0March 11. Following news of the\u00a0incident, flight engineers were dispatched to the airport to evaluate the damage. The engineers then reported\u00a0that the engines suffered\u00a0severe\u00a0damage and will most likely\u00a0need to be replaced.\u00a0Iron Maiden is making alternate\u00a0arrangements to get its members and touring equipment to Cordoba in Argentina for the next stop of the tour. The band released a statement that read:\u00a0“Although this is tragic for our beautiful plane, we do not expect this to affect our concert schedule including the next two shows in Cordoba and Buenos Aires. And we\u00a0hope to find a new Ed Force One branded airplane\u00a0to continue this adventure with us in the near future”. There\u00a0were over\u00a058,000 fans in attendance\u00a0to see the band perform in Santiago, and more awaiting the upcoming shows in South America. The Chilean Departamento Prevenci\u00f3n de Accidentes has opened an investigation into the cause of the accident.<\/p>\n

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Image from the Iron Maiden Facebook page<\/p>\n

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Iron Maiden’s plane was badly damaged in an airport accident while taxing in\u00a0Santiago, Chile\u00a0on Saturday morning.\u00a0The band\u00a0and its equipment were not on board the aircraft at the time of the accident, and were forced to make alternate\u00a0plans to get to the\u00a0next stop on their tour\u00a0in Cordoba, Argentina. The airplane, dubbed “Ed Force One” after the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}