{"id":647651,"date":"2026-11-01T08:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T08:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647651\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T08:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T08:16:12","slug":"aircraft-flies-into-hangar-at-ardmore-airport-crashes-into-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647651\/","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft flies into hangar at Ardmore Airport crashes into helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hangar and a helicopter have been struck by a small aircraft at Ardmore Airport in the southeast of Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency New Zealand shift manager said crews were sent to the aerodrome at around 1.10pm where a light aircraft had flown into a hangar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is an unknown quantity of fuel leaking,&#8221; the shift manager said.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/a-small-aircraft-tangled-with-a-helicopter-after-crashing-in-PXUECUQVPZFSHPYA3TGWZYBFJA.jpg\" alt=\"A small aircraft tangled with a helicopter after crashing into a hangar at Ardmore Airport.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">A small aircraft tangled with a helicopter after crashing into a hangar at Ardmore Airport. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>Footage obtained by 1News shows the small winged white plane crashed through the wall of a hangar and tangled with a black helicopter inside the structure.<\/p>\n<p>Airport officials at the scene refused to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were called just after 1.10pm to a light aircraft crash on the airfield.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One person is reported to have minor injuries,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>However, Hato Hone St John said it responded one ambulance, one manager, and one helicopter. &#8220;One patient was assessed at this scene and was uninjured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>1News has sought additional information from Ardmore Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hangar and a helicopter have been struck by a small aircraft at Ardmore Airport in the southeast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,51,42,43,40,38,41,39,112],"class_list":["post-647651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-auckland","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647651","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=647651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}