{"id":390254,"date":"2026-04-21T10:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/390254\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:25:10","slug":"air-force-aviator-dies-at-ohakea-air-base-swimming-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/390254\/","title":{"rendered":"Air force aviator dies at Ohakea air base swimming pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4L8YZHG_Ohakea_intersection_JPG.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"A roundabout will soon spring up at the intersection of State Highway 3 and the road to the \u014chakea air force base.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA roundabout will soon spring up at the intersection of State Highway 3 and the road to the \u014chakea air force base.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Jimmy Ellingham\n<\/p>\n<p>An air force aviator has died after a medical event at Ohakea air base in Manawat\u016b on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A Defence Force spokesperson has confirmed the death, saying it happened at the base&#8217;s swimming pool.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said they couldn&#8217;t comment further at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened about 6.40am.<\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said one ambulance and two rapid-response vehicles attended the &#8220;water incident&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency was also called for the scene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A roundabout will soon spring up at the intersection of State Highway 3 and the road to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-390254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390254","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=390254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}