{"id":593680,"date":"2026-09-08T07:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/593680\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T07:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:46:10","slug":"eyrewell-microlight-aircraft-crash-reported-as-emergency-services-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/593680\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyrewell microlight aircraft crash reported as emergency services respond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">The owner of the property said he was in the shower when the crash happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">He described hearing a \u201cloud bang\u201d before looking outside and seeing the wreck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">A Fire and Emergency New Zealand shift manager said crews from Cust, Oxford and Rangiora responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John referred media inquiries to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">The Civil Aviation Authority said it had been notified of the accident and was liaising with police and the Transport Accident Investigation Commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Police said further details would be released when they became available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owner of the property said he was in the shower when the crash happened. He described hearing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,31844,806,8126,3549,15979,23364,15974,292670,292671,3180,111,43,139,529,69,814,15267,4491,3175,69762,1321,5911,143495,3608,102],"class_list":["post-593680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-aircraft","tag-as","tag-canterbury","tag-crash","tag-crashed","tag-crews","tag-emergency","tag-eyrewell","tag-microlight","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-property","tag-reported","tag-respond","tag-rural","tag-scouring","tag-services","tag-tonight","tag-torches","tag-were","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593680","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=593680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}