{"id":537848,"date":"2025-10-30T15:15:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/537848\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:15:27","slug":"police-at-scene-of-helicopter-crash-near-doncaster-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/537848\/","title":{"rendered":"Police at scene of helicopter crash near Doncaster | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are at the scene of a helicopter crash near Doncaster.<\/p>\n

South Yorkshire Police say officers were called to reports of a helicopter crash in a field off Ings Lane, Bentley.<\/p>\n

Pictures from the scene showed the helicopter lying on its side in a field with emergency services vehicles nearby.<\/p>\n

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\n The helicopter could be seen lying on its side in a field. Pics: Yappapp<\/p>\n

In a statement, the force said: “At 10.14am today, we were called to Ings Lane, Bentley, where it is reported that a helicopter crashed in a field.<\/p>\n

“Officers and emergency services colleagues are in attendance at the scene.<\/p>\n

“Ings Lane is closed while we respond to this incident. Please avoid the area and plan an alternative route where possible.”<\/p>\n

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\n A map showing the helicopter’s flight path. Pic: Flightradar24<\/p>\n

The helicopter was a private flight which took off from Gamston Airport near Retford shortly before it crashed.<\/p>\n

In a statement the airport said: “We can confirm an aircraft based here operated by an onsite tenant has been involved in an incident.<\/p>\n

“We have no further information at this time.”<\/p>\n

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It is not known how many people were on the helicopter when it crashed.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Air Accidents Investigation Branch said: “The AAIB has been made aware of an accident near Doncaster and has deployed a team to commence an investigation”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are at the scene of a helicopter crash near Doncaster. South Yorkshire Police say officers were called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-537848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115463778308242579","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}