{"id":566880,"date":"2026-08-12T16:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/566880\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T16:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:36:20","slug":"police-investigate-laser-strike-on-pilot-training-flight-over-napier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/566880\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate laser strike on pilot-training flight over Napier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkes Bay Today<\/p>\n<p>12 Aug, 2026 05:40 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A training flight was hit several times by a laser as it flew over Napier. Photo \/ Christine McKay<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A laser strike turned around a training flight over Napier on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police are making inquiries to find the offender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The pilot was the sole occupant and as the aircraft flew over Awatoto about 8.30pm it was hit by a laser several times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Area prevention manager Inspector Caroline Martin<br \/>\n         said the pilot was able to return to Hawke\u2019s Bay Airport safely.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"BXSdIJQrZoWgYbVqzX\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLaser strikes against aircraft are incredibly dangerous and outright stupid when you look at the potential consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawkes Bay Today 12 Aug, 2026 05:40 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[665,19555,70,676,3926,3607,111,43,139,69,90,1523,279080,675,4485,8812,14578,19054],"class_list":["post-566880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-around","tag-evening","tag-flight","tag-investigate","tag-laser","tag-napier","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-over","tag-pilottraining","tag-police","tag-strike","tag-training","tag-tuesday","tag-turned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566880","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=566880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}