{"id":456455,"date":"2026-03-04T04:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T04:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456455\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T04:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T04:16:10","slug":"sas-blue-thunder-helicopter-seen-over-radcliffe-and-bury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456455\/","title":{"rendered":"SAS Blue Thunder helicopter seen over Radcliffe and Bury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  They were seen flying over Radcliffe and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burytimes.co.uk\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bury<\/a> between around 4pm and 5pm with confused onlookers speculating about why the aircraft were circling the area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>An SAS helicopter was spotted flying above Bury and Radcliffe (Image: Public)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Bolton News understands that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theboltonnews.co.uk\/topics\/transport\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">helicopters<\/a> are taking part in a routine training exercise.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The helicopter seen today appears to be the same model as the two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theboltonnews.co.uk\/news\/25901348.residents-freaking-out-helicopters-descend-mediacity\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">seen at Salford\u2019s MediaCity yesterday<\/a> \u2013 a Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin, nicknamed \u201cBlue Thunder\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Two helicopters were seen landing in MediaCity (Image: mich2255)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They have gained this name from their notable colour scheme, pairing navy blue with a white underbelly.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  On Monday night (March 2), residents at Salford Quays reported \u201cfreaking out\u201d when two of the helicopters were seen landing in an open square.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They flew away together before returning a bit later, when residents also spotted men in black on the rooftops.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The men were seen descending from the helicopters onto the roof of a nearby hotel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Filming on Coronation Street which was taking place outside was also seen to have stopped entirely as a result of the helicopters flying nearby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They were seen flying over Radcliffe and Bury between around 4pm and 5pm with confused onlookers speculating about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-456455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}