{"id":850593,"date":"2026-08-08T12:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/850593\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:18:10","slug":"terrace-pilot-killed-in-helicopter-crash-while-fighting-wildfire-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/850593\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrace pilot killed in helicopter crash while fighting wildfire in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Terrace pilot killed in helicopter crash while fighting wildfire in Greece<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 3:29 pm Friday, August 7, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">\n                    By Rod Link\/Terrace Standard\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>A Danish pilot living in Terrace has been killed in a helicopter crash while fighting a wildfire west of Athens, Greece on Aug. 2, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Two helicopters, one piloted by Rune Kyndal, 46, came into contact with each other in midair, European news agencies report.<\/p>\n<p>Kyndal and a Greek firefighting coordinator were killed when their helicopter crashed. The British pilot of the second helicopter made an emergency landing and he and a Greek coordinator are now in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Kyndal had worked as a heli-skiing pilot in Terrace but switched to fighting fires because he believed it was too dangerous, reports indicate.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are now investigating the reasons behind the accident involving the two Bell helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his sorrow at the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Regarded as a skilled pilot, Kyndal was presented with an award from Transport Canada after he had flown 5,000 hours without incidents.<\/p>\n<p>There have now been five people killed in Greece this summer while fighting some of the worst wildfires now burning in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terrace pilot killed in helicopter crash while fighting wildfire in Greece Published 3:29 pm Friday, August 7, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[244562,903,49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-850593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-bc-north","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}