{"id":268584,"date":"2026-08-20T02:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268584\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T02:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:52:10","slug":"pa-state-police-helicopter-collides-with-plane-in-carlisle-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268584\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa. State Police helicopter collides with plane in Carlisle \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pennsylvania State Police helicopter a small plane collided over Carlisle Airport on Wednesday night, resulting in the death of a pilot, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said the crash involved the Pennsylvania State Police and is speaking now in the player above.<\/p>\n<p>The crash involved Cessna 150 airplane and a Pennsylvania State Police Bell 407 helicopter. Shapiro said that the two troopers involved will survive their injuries. However, Acting Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police George L. Bivens said that the pilot of Cessna 150 was killed. <\/p>\n<p>According to Biven, the helicopter was conducting a training exercise off the runway when the plane collided with the back of the helicopter. The collision caused a violent crash that sent the plane into several pieces, and the helicopter rolled around on the ground, Biven said. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNBC10&#8217;s Fred Shropshire has the story from the Streaming Center.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating. <\/p>\n<p>Carlisle Airport is a small airport located in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-19-212002.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy WGALCourtesy WGAL<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story; check back for more details. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania State Police helicopter a small plane collided over Carlisle Airport on Wednesday night, resulting in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-268584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268584","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=268584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}