SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — An airplane and a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter collided in mid-air on Wednesday night, according to officials.<\/p>\n
The crash happened at the Carlisle Airport in Cumberland County around 7:50 p.m.<\/p>\n
Gov. Josh Shapiro said he is heading to the crash site.<\/p>\n
“Lori and I are praying hard and we ask all of our fellow Pennsylvanians to join us,” Shapiro said in a Facebook post.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported that an airplane collided with the helicopter, which had two people on board.<\/p>\n
The number of people on board the airplane is unknown.<\/p>\n
The extent of any injuries is unknown at this time.<\/p>\n
“Just a heartbreaking scene unfolding tonight at Carlisle Airport involving a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter,” said Treasurer Stacy Garrity. “My thoughts and prayers are with everyone involved, their families, and the first responders on the scene.”<\/p>\n
The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are investigating the crash.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Stick with 69 News on the web and on air for the latest updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — An airplane and a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter collided in mid-air on Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[214,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-268546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}