{"id":277375,"date":"2025-09-02T09:55:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/?p=1419364"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:55:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:55:48","slug":"comedian-accuses-adf-of-taipan-cover-up-in-nephews-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=277375","title":{"rendered":"Comedian accuses ADF of \u2018Taipan cover-up\u2019 in nephew\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI2NDAiIGhlaWdodD0iMzYxIj48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIj48YW5pbWF0ZSBhdHRyaWJ1dGVOYW1lPSJmaWxsIiB2YWx1ZXM9InJnYmEoMTUzLDE1MywxNTMsMC41KTtyZ2JhKDE1MywxNTMsMTUzLDAuMSk7cmdiYSgxNTMsMTUzLDE1MywwLjUpIiBkdXI9IjJzIiByZXBlYXRDb3VudD0iaW5kZWZpbml0ZSIgLz48L3JlY3Q+PC9zdmc+\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image wp-image-1342504 wp-post-1419364\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" data-public-id=\"Australian Aviation\/mrh90_taipan_1_ruieo4.jpg\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto\" data-version=\"1698211115\" data-responsive=\"1\" data-size=\"1200 677\" data-delivery=\"upload\" onload=\";window.CLDBind?CLDBind(this):null;\" data-cloudinary=\"lazy\" \/>Jim Jefferies described the fatal crash and grounding of the ADF fleet of MRH-90 Taipan helicopters as \u201cterrible\u201d, \u201cintentionally-drawn out\u201d and a \u201cgovernment cover-up\u201d, while appearing on the \u2018This Past Weekend\u2019 podcast with American comedian Theo Von in late August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Jefferies described the fatal crash and grounding of the ADF fleet of MRH-90 Taipan helicopters as \u201cterrible\u201d, \u201cintentionally-drawn out\u201d and a \u201cgovernment cover-up\u201d, while appearing on the \u2018This Past Weekend\u2019 podcast with American comedian Theo Von&#8230;<\/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":[273,312,470,474,471],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-277375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-aviation","category-defence","category-helicopters","category-news","tag-australian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277375","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=277375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277376,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277375\/revisions\/277376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}