{"id":704097,"date":"2026-06-14T19:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704097\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T19:46:09","slug":"helicopters-collide-over-rio-de-janeiro-killing-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704097\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopters collide over Rio de Janeiro, killing 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) \u2014 Two helicopters collided over <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/rio-de-janeiro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rio de Janeiro<\/a> on Sunday morning and crashed in the city\u2019s western zone, killing all six people aboard, firefighters said. <\/p>\n<p>Rio de Janeiro\u2019s Military Fire Department said that one of the helicopters crashed on a car dealership, where several electric vehicles were parked, igniting a fire that was extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the collision. <\/p>\n<p>Police said that American singer and comedian Oliver Tree was on the list of passengers handed to aviation authorities, but have not been able to identify the bodies of those killed in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Follow AP\u2019s Latin America coverage at <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/latin-america\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/latin-america<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) \u2014 Two helicopters collided over Rio de Janeiro on Sunday morning and crashed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1686,1308,5040,88,793,304227,112284,74,965],"class_list":["post-704097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-accidents","tag-automotive-accidents","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-oliver-tree","tag-rio-de-janeiro","tag-technology","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704097","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=704097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}