{"id":268959,"date":"2026-08-20T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268959\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:24:07","slug":"plane-helicopter-crash-in-pa-killing-1-and-injuring-2-state-troopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268959\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane, Helicopter Crash In PA, Killing 1 And Injuring 2 State Troopers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two-man helicopter crew was conducting training exercises on a grassy area adjacent to the runway when a small, two-seat Cessna Model 150 plane struck the Bell 407 helicopter after suddenly veering off the runway.<\/p>\n<p>The Cessna crashed a short distance from the helicopter and broke into multiple pieces. The Cumberland County Coroner&#8217;s Office identified the airplane pilot who died in the crash as Paul Sokoloski, 57, of Hershey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two-man helicopter crew was conducting training exercises on a grassy area adjacent to the runway when a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-268959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268959","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=268959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}