{"id":269168,"date":"2026-08-20T23:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269168\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T23:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:58:20","slug":"violent-crash-at-pennsylvania-airport-kills-pilot-injures-2-state-police-troopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269168\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Violent crash&#8217; at Pennsylvania airport kills pilot, injures 2 state police troopers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/NATS-PA-plane-crash-300x170.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1306099\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VIDEOS: Investigators were out at the scene Thursday after a fatal midair crash left a pilot dead and two Pennsylvania state troopers injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They will be looking into what caused a small plane and a state police helicopter to collide midair in Central Pennsylvania Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are both investigating. The crash happened at the Carlisle Airport in Cumberland County, southwest of Harrisburg, around 7 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When first responders arrived at the scene, a Pennsylvania state police helicopter was on its side and a small plane was in pieces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The acting commissioner of the state police said the helicopter crew, based out of Harrisburg, had been conducting routine training exercises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe pilots would not have been able to even see that airplane approaching them,\u201d said Pennsylvania State Police Acting Commissioner Col. George Bivens, adding that it was a \u201cvery violent crash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WPVI-TV ABC 6 Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7bcb202e8d29f071ebff4f29a39434cb.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"Emergency responders were dispatched to an aircraft crash involving State Police helicopter at Carli\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEOS: Investigators were out at the scene Thursday after a fatal midair crash left a pilot dead and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[856,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-269168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-national","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269168","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=269168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}