{"id":18519,"date":"2022-10-06T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=18519"},"modified":"2022-10-06T11:06:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:06:08","slug":"fatal-helicopter-crash-maitland-vale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/10\/06\/fatal-helicopter-crash-maitland-vale\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal helicopter crash \u2013 Maitland Vale\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police remain at the scene of a fatal helicopter crash in the Hunter this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About&nbsp;4.20pm&nbsp;(Thursday 6 October 2022), emergency services were called to Campbells Road, Maitland Vale \u2013 about 10km north of Maitland \u2013 after reports a helicopter had crashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upon arrival, crews located a Bell \u2018Jet Ranger\u2019 helicopter crashed on a nearby riverbank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One male occupant was located deceased; he is yet to be formally identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District have established a crime scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) have been notified and will conduct an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A report will be prepared for the information of the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police remain at the scene of a fatal helicopter crash in the Hunter this afternoon. About&nbsp;4.20pm&nbsp;(Thursday 6 October 2022), emergency services were called to Campbells Road, Maitland Vale \u2013 about 10km north of Maitland \u2013 after reports a helicopter had crashed. Upon arrival, crews located a Bell \u2018Jet Ranger\u2019 helicopter crashed on a nearby riverbank. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/10\/06\/fatal-helicopter-crash-maitland-vale\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fatal helicopter crash \u2013 Maitland Vale\u00a0&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18520,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18519\/revisions\/18520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}