{"id":205530,"date":"2026-03-25T14:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205530\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:36:18","slug":"michigan-man-among-2-dead-in-florida-helicopter-crash-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205530\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan man among 2 dead in Florida helicopter crash, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Lansing, Michigan, man is among the two victims of a fatal helicopter crash in Florida, local police reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The small helicopter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/florida-helicopter-crash-boynton-beach-march-23-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\">crashed into a vacant warehouse building<\/a>\u00a0about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in Boynton Beach. Boynton Beach is in southern Florida, north of Fort Lauderdale.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victims were Bryan Menna, 52, of Lansing, and Alejandro Carrasco, 28, of West Palm Beach, Florida. Police said Carassco was a flight instructor on the Robinson R44 helicopter, and Menna was the student in training.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cbsmiami-boynton-beach-helicopter-crash-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"cbsmiami-boynton-beach-helicopter-crash-1.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One of the witnesses told CBS News Miami that he saw the helicopter going down nose-first toward the building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was leaving work for lunch. I stopped at the stop sign down there. In the corner of my eye, I saw a helicopter coming straight down, like it was coming to the end of a barrel roll,&#8221; Rhett Savidge said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Boynton Beach Police Department led efforts at the scene, with the assistance of the Boynton Beach Fire Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The National Transportation Safety Board has now been assigned as the lead investigation agency, assisted by the Federal Aviation Administration. A preliminary accident report is expected in about a month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lansing, Michigan, man is among the two victims of a fatal helicopter crash in Florida, local police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,94174,94365,7642,3119],"class_list":["post-205530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-helicopter-crash","tag-lansing","tag-michigan","tag-national-transportation-safety-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}