{"id":619845,"date":"2026-04-20T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619845\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:00:14","slug":"pilot-killed-in-chopper-crash-in-outback-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619845\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot killed in chopper crash in outback Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say the chopper crashed around 9.30am just off Tumbar Road, not far outside the small outback town.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old male pilot, who was the sole occupant of the helicopter, was declared dead at the scene.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash is not yet known but will be investigated by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau with assistance from police\ufeff.<\/p>\n<p>Workplace Health and Safety have been advised.<\/p>\n<p>A report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say the chopper crashed around 9.30am just off Tumbar Road, not far outside the small outback town.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-619845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}