{"id":66731,"date":"2026-05-17T06:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/66731\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:50:06","slug":"two-people-dead-after-helicopter-crash-in-mt-aspiring-southern-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/66731\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people dead after helicopter crash in Mt Aspiring, Southern Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>17 May, 2026 03:38 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two people have died following a helicopter crash in Mt Aspiring National Park today. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services received reports of the incident about 9.50am, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Maritime NZ\u2019s Rescue Coordination Centre has handed responsibility for the response to police, who are on scene now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The Civil Aviation Authority confirmed<br \/>\n         it was aware of the reported helicopter accident on Sunday morning.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAt this stage, we are making initial enquiries to understand the circumstances and are liaising with other agencies involved,\u201d a CAA spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 17 May, 2026 03:38 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[8462,50,36153,5586,9592,2528,12260,6703,6676,2877,36152,11083,13793,3008,36154,1022,8465],"class_list":["post-66731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alps","tag-after","tag-alps","tag-aspiring","tag-crash","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-following","tag-have","tag-helicopter","tag-in","tag-mt","tag-national","tag-park","tag-people","tag-southern","tag-today","tag-two"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116588591623731141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}