{"id":22221,"date":"2024-03-24T23:45:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T13:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/alraigo-incident-harrier-cargo-ship-landing-story\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T23:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T13:45:12","slug":"the-alraigo-incident-when-a-lost-british-harrier-landed-on-a-cargo-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=22221","title":{"rendered":"The Alraigo Incident: When A Lost British Harrier Landed On A Cargo Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps no Cold War-era Royal Navy carrier aircraft is as famous as the Sea Harrier. The venerable Sea Harriers were famous for their vertical take and landing capabilities &#8211; allowing the aircraft to take off and land without a runway. Sea Harriers operated by the Royal Navy Invinciple-class <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/aircraft-carrier\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >aircraft carriers<\/a> played a central role in the 1982 Falklands War. <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/harrier-jump-jet-hover\/\">Harriers are famous for their ability to hover<\/a> and takeoff and land vertically. What is less well known is when a British Sea Harrier landed on a cargo ship, <em>Alraigo<\/em>, after getting lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running low on fuel, a Royal Navy Sea Harrier landed on a cargo ship bound for the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,817,620,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-british-army","category-cargo","category-military"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22222,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22221\/revisions\/22222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}