Berk Kutay Gokmen<\/p>\n
20 August 2026\u2022Update: 20 August 2026<\/p>\n
A pilot was killed and two state troopers injured when a state police helicopter collided with a small plane during a training exercise at a central Pennsylvania airport Wednesday evening, officials said.<\/p>\n
The crash happened at Carlisle Regional Airport in Cumberland County, about 120 miles (193 kilometers) west of Philadelphia, police said, according to CNN.<\/p>\n
The two-person helicopter crew was conducting routine training on a grassy area beside a runway when a two-seat Cessna Model 150 struck the helicopter from behind after traveling down the runway and veering right, State Police acting Commissioner Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens said at a news conference.<\/p>\n
The helicopter was \u201cseveral feet off the ground\u201d when the collision occurred, Bivens said. \u201cThe pilots would not have been able to even see that airplane approaching them,\u201d he said, calling it \u201ca very violent crash.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bivens said both pilots were initially trapped inside the helicopter. One trooper managed to push out a window and help the other escape before emergency responders arrived.<\/p>\n
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash with assistance from Pennsylvania State Police, Bivens said.<\/p>\n
The Cessna was believed to have had only its pilot aboard, though Bivens said that remains under investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cTonight could have been much worse. Tonight could have been much more tragic for our state police family. Thank god that it wasn\u2019t,\u201d Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said at Wednesday\u2019s news conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berk Kutay Gokmen 20 August 2026\u2022Update: 20 August 2026 A pilot was killed and two state troopers injured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,77126],"class_list":["post-268692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268692","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=268692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}