{"id":618583,"date":"2026-06-03T08:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618583\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T08:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:45:26","slug":"royal-navy-helicopter-crashes-into-field-near-okehampton-in-devon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618583\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Navy helicopter crashes into field near Okehampton in Devon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Royal Navy helicopter has crashed into a field in an incident police have described as &#8220;ongoing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Devon and Cornwall Police said emergency services were at the scene in the Sourton Down area of Devon, near Okehampton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Ministry of Defence have confirmed it was a Royal Navy helicopter,&#8221; a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A road closure was put in place at about 05:00 BST on the A386, between the A30 at Sourton Down and the A3079 Fowley Cross in Okehampton, while the crash is investigated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Royal Navy helicopter has crashed into a field in an incident police have described as &#8220;ongoing&#8221;. Devon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-618583","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\/618583","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=618583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}