{"id":97167760,"date":"2010-05-18T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/boy-who-survived-libya-plane-crash-recovering-well\/"},"modified":"2010-05-18T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T10:43:00","slug":"boy-who-survived-libya-plane-crash-recovering-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/boy-who-survived-libya-plane-crash-recovering-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy Who Survived Libya Plane Crash Recovering Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>Ruben van Assouw recovering after Afriqiyah Airways plane crash<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 9-year-old Dutch boy who was the only survivor of last week&rsquo;s plane crash in Libya is recovering well in Dutch hospital, his family tells sources.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe parents of Ruben van Assouw along with his 11-year-old brother were among the 103 passengers and crew members who died last Wednesday. The&nbsp;accident&nbsp;occurred when an Afriqiyah Airways plane crashed into the desert shy of the runway at an airport in Tripoli, Libya&rsquo;s capital.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRuben&rsquo;s family said he&rsquo;ll require another operation that he will receive once he&rsquo;s strong enough to undergo the process. His legs were crushed in the crash.<br \/>\nEven though he endured a very traumatic experience, Ruben was not afraid to fly again.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHe flew home Saturday with an aunt and uncle and is being cared for in a hospital in the city of Tilburg.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/m.apnews.com\/ap\/db_16045\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=Im9XMtks\" target=\"_blank\"><em> Associated Press <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ruben van Assouw recovering after Afriqiyah Airways plane crash &nbsp; The 9-year-old Dutch boy who was the only survivor of last week&rsquo;s plane crash in Libya is recovering well in Dutch hospital, his family tells sources. &nbsp; The parents of Ruben van Assouw along with his 11-year-old brother were among the 103 passengers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97167760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97167760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}