Two people have been taken to hospital with minor injuries after a helicopter made an emergency landing in the state\u2019s Hunter Region today.
\nJust before 2.30pm (Saturday 16 November 2019), emergency services were called to Tilligerry Creek, following reports of a helicopter crash.
\nPolice have been told the helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in mangroves on the edge of Tilligerry creek due to technical difficulties.
\nThe two male occupants onboard suffered minor injuries and were transported to John Hunter Hospital by NSW Ambulance paramedics for further assessment.
\nOfficers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District established a crime scene and commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.
\nAn operation to recover the aircraft has commenced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two people have been taken to hospital with minor injuries after a helicopter made an emergency landing in the state\u2019s Hunter Region today. Just before 2.30pm (Saturday 16 November 2019), emergency services were called to Tilligerry Creek, following reports of a helicopter crash. Police have been told the helicopter was forced to make an emergency … Continue reading “Two people taken to hospital following forced helicopter landing near Port Stephens”<\/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-4242","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\/4242","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=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}