{"id":184205,"date":"2025-12-15T03:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T03:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184205\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T03:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T03:07:07","slug":"one-person-dead-after-helicopter-crash-near-whanganui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184205\/","title":{"rendered":"One person dead after helicopter crash near Whanganui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police and the Transport Accident Investigation Commission are investigating the fatal helicopter crash. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has died after a helicopter crash near Whanganui at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A police spokesperson said emergency services were alerted to a report of the crash near the Matahiwi Track about 8am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The Matahiwi Track is a farm track connecting the Whanganui River Rd and State Highway<br \/>\n         4\/Parapara Rd.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe deceased was the sole occupant of the helicopter,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/nz-police\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/nz-police\/\">Police<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/transport-accident-investigation-commission\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/transport-accident-investigation-commission\/\">Transport Accident Investigation Commission<\/a> are investigating, and the death will be referred to the coroner.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police and the Transport Accident Investigation Commission are investigating the fatal helicopter crash. Photo \/ NZME A person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,3549,690,6179,42,47065,3180,43,5270,4056,40,38,41,39,4767,1883],"class_list":{"0":"post-184205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-crash","10":"tag-dead","11":"tag-died","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-helicopter","14":"tag-near","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-one","17":"tag-person","18":"tag-top-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topnews","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-weekend","23":"tag-whanganui"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184205","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=184205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}