{"id":6955,"date":"2019-01-10T11:45:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T07:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=6955"},"modified":"2019-01-10T11:45:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T07:45:20","slug":"watch-skiers-rescued-in-dramatic-helicopter-manoeuvre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/01\/10\/watch-skiers-rescued-in-dramatic-helicopter-manoeuvre\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Skiers rescued in dramatic helicopter manoeuvre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footage has emerged of the heart-stopping helicopter rescue of a group of skiers from the Pass of Anterne in the French Alps.<\/p>\n<p>One of the skiers was struggling with a knee injury and were able to call for help using a mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot said the rescuers chose to perform the manoeuvre, known as a &#8220;skate support&#8221;, because of the weather conditions during the incident, which took place on 2 January.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 618px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-6955-1\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/French_Alps_skiers_rescued_in_dramatic_helicopter_manoeuvre-p06xn19h.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/French_Alps_skiers_rescued_in_dramatic_helicopter_manoeuvre-p06xn19h.mp4\">https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/French_Alps_skiers_rescued_in_dramatic_helicopter_manoeuvre-p06xn19h.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footage has emerged of the heart-stopping helicopter rescue of a group of skiers from the Pass of Anterne in the French Alps. One of the skiers was struggling with a knee injury and were able to call for help using a mobile phone. The pilot said the rescuers chose to perform the manoeuvre, known as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6958,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955\/revisions\/6958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}