{"id":137980,"date":"2025-11-16T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/137980\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:22:11","slug":"one-person-airlifted-to-hospital-following-helicopter-crash-in-makara-wellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/137980\/","title":{"rendered":"One person airlifted to hospital following helicopter crash in M\u0101kara, Wellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">The Transport Accident Investigation Commission was investigating the accident in which a Robinson R66 helicopter crashed on coastal land near the Makara Wind Farm, to the West of Wellington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe helicopter, registered as ZK-IXT, was operated by SCN Helicopters Limited,\u201d the commission said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">The activation of the helicopter\u2019s Emergency Locator Transmitter reportedly alerted emergency services. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe pilot was recovered by the Westpac helicopter and taken to Wellington Hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Transport Accident Investigation Commission was investigating the accident in which a Robinson R66 helicopter crashed on coastal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11727,1558,3549,5504,47065,2241,78,93494,111,43,139,69,5270,4056,381,61,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-137980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-airlifted","9":"tag-been","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-following","12":"tag-helicopter","13":"tag-hospital","14":"tag-in","15":"tag-mkara","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-one","21":"tag-person","22":"tag-region","23":"tag-to","24":"tag-wellington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}