{"id":788182,"date":"2026-02-25T14:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/788182\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:29:17","slug":"police-helicopter-searches-for-high-risk-missing-person-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/788182\/","title":{"rendered":"Police helicopter searches for &#8216;high risk&#8217; missing person in Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Police Air Service (NPAS) has confirmed why a helicopter was seen circling above Bristol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Flight tracker ADSBexchange tracked the NPAS flight from Cardiff to the Temple Meads area of Bristol at around 9.45pm on Tuesday, February 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A spokesperson for NPAS told BristolLive the helicopter had been searching for a high-risk missing person.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The person in question has been found, an Avon and Somerset Police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Police Air Service said: &#8220;At 2054hrs on 24 February 2026, a police helicopter crew from St Athan were deployed to support Avon &amp; Somerset Police in a search for a high-risk missing person in the Bristol area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Total flying time on the task was around 43 minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>  Want to see more of the stories you love from BristolLive? <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Making us your preferred source on Google means you\u2019ll get more of our exclusives, top stories and must-read content straight away. To add BristolLive as a preferred source, simply  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=bristolpost.co.uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a>  . <\/p>\n<p>Or  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/news\/bristol-news\/more-bristollive-exclusives--sign-10712182\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:read more;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">read more<\/a>  about selecting your preferred sources.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Police Air Service (NPAS) has confirmed why a helicopter was seen circling above Bristol. Flight tracker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8818],"tags":[25368,381,748,393,4884,10473,23,166078,16,15],"class_list":["post-788182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bristol","tag-avon-and-somerset-police","tag-bristol","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-helicopter","tag-missing-person","tag-national-police-air-service","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116131749313496973","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788182","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=788182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}