{"id":35392,"date":"2022-04-29T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=35392"},"modified":"2022-04-29T21:52:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T19:52:26","slug":"former-pilot-talks-about-97-2-pilots-were-given-an-order-to-shoot-on-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/former-pilot-talks-about-97-2-pilots-were-given-an-order-to-shoot-on-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Former pilot talks about \u201997: 2 pilots were given an order to shoot civillians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albanian military aviation was founded 71 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>On April 24, 1951, the first Albanian military plane was flown.<\/p>\n<p>Commander of the Rinas air group, Petrit Bebeci, said that during the 1997 turmoil, pilots were appointed duties, where they would practice the use of bombs and missiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPilots would never go where they were told to but they would drop their bombs in non-residential areas,\u201d \u2013 said Bebeci.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he said that back then 2 pilots were given an order to conduct a mission during which they needed to bomb an entourage of tanks transporting food to citizens from the city of Tepelene to Gjirokaster.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to Bebeci, the pilots didn\u2019t obey that order and flew to Italy instead, at a latitude below 10 thousand meters, so they wouldn\u2019t be picked up by Italian radars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albanian military aviation was founded 71 years ago. 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