{"id":6719,"date":"2026-04-06T00:13:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/11\/captain-floran-deliu-and-lieutenant-donald-hoxha\/---b352ec42-0833-40f0-8a1e-408123e7d56c"},"modified":"2026-04-06T00:13:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:13:37","slug":"captain-floran-deliu-and-lieutenant-donald-hoxha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2026\/04\/06\/captain-floran-deliu-and-lieutenant-donald-hoxha\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Floran Deliu and Lieutenant Donald Hoxha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On April 6, 2016, <\/strong>Captain Floran Deliu and Lieutenant Donald Hoxha, Martyrs of the Homeland, lost their lives during a training mission in the lake of Shkodra. The two pilots fell in the line of duty due to the crash of the EC-145 helicopter, with which they were carrying out a training flight in Grizh\u00eb of the Mal\u00ebsi e Madhe. They excelled in their professionalism, devotion, and passion, for which they were respected and appreciated and for which they will be remembered in the future. The success story of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Albania is written with the sacrifices, dedication and selflessness of pilots and skilled soldiers. The main hall of the Ministry of Defense is named after the two martyrs Floran Deliu and Donald Hoxha <i>. (In the picture: The naming of the military base in the Ministry of Defense.)<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text: <\/strong>https:\/\/www.mod.gov.al\/&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 6, 2016, Captain Floran Deliu and Lieutenant Donald Hoxha, Martyrs of the Homeland, lost their lives during a training mission in the lake of Shkodra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Captain Floran Deliu and Lieutenant Donald Hoxha - Albanian Heritage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/11\/kapiten-floran-deliu-toger-donald-hoxha\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Captain Floran Deliu and Lieutenant Donald Hoxha - 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