{"id":431593,"date":"2026-05-17T05:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/431593\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T05:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:31:11","slug":"two-dead-after-mt-aspiring-helicopter-crash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/431593\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead after Mt Aspiring helicopter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4PLVO07_copyright_image_30962.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"Mt Aspiring National Park\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nMt Aspiring National Park. File photo.<br \/>\nPhoto: AFP\n<\/p>\n<p>Two people have died after a helicopter crash in Mt Aspiring National Park on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police said reports of the crash came in about 9.50am.<\/p>\n<p>Maritime NZ&#8217;s Rescue Coordination centre handed responsibility for the response to police who are now at 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":"Mt Aspiring National Park. File photo. Photo: AFP Two people have died after a helicopter crash in Mt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-431593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431593","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=431593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}