{"id":384506,"date":"2026-01-03T00:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/384506\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T00:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:43:09","slug":"helicopter-crashes-in-mountains-crews-working-to-reach-remote-site-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/384506\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter crashes in mountains, crews working to reach remote site: Authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">A private helicopter with four people on board crashed in mountains near Phoenix on Friday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Crews are working to access the remote crash site, located in the mountains near Telegraph Canyon, south of Superior, Arizona, according to the Pinal County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. Injuries have not yet been confirmed, the sheriff&#8217;s office said Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crash occurred around 11 a.m. local time Friday and involved an MD 369FF helicopter, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The FAA confirmed four people were on board the helicopter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The helicopter had departed from Pegasus Airpark in Queen Creek, Arizona, located west of Superior, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Superior is nearly 70 miles east of Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA are investigating the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">A temporary flight restriction has been issued by the FAA over the area &#8220;to provide a safe environment for search and rescue ops,&#8221; according to the notice.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A private helicopter with four people on board crashed in mountains near Phoenix on Friday, authorities said. Crews&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[187281,9257,4,450,451,6377,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-384506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-187281","tag-abc-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-national","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}