{"id":677268,"date":"2026-05-17T19:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677268\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T19:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:47:11","slug":"update-fatal-helicopter-crash-mt-aspiring-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677268\/","title":{"rendered":"Update \u2013 fatal helicopter crash, Mt Aspiring National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attributable to Detective Sergeant Sarah Waugh, Cromwell CIB:<\/p>\n<p>Police enquiries are ongoing following the fatal helicopter crash in Mt Aspiring National Park earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>I can now confirm the helicopter was a chartered craft, and the occupants were on a hunting trip.<\/p>\n<p>The two people who died were the sole occupants of the craft at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Three others from the hunting group were located on the ground and taken to safety.<\/p>\n<p>Our condolences go out to their loved ones, who we are providing support.<\/p>\n<p>Their deaths have been referred to the Coroner, and the Civil Aviation Authority and the Transport Accident Investigation Commission have been notified.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>Issued by Police Media Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attributable to Detective Sergeant Sarah Waugh, Cromwell CIB: Police enquiries are ongoing following the fatal helicopter crash in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-677268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677268","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=677268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}