{"id":295928,"date":"2025-10-12T00:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T00:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/295928\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T00:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T00:11:15","slug":"five-hospitalized-after-helicopter-crashes-next-to-huntington-beach-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/295928\/","title":{"rendered":"Five hospitalized after helicopter crashes next to Huntington Beach hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Five people were hospitalized after a helicopter crash Saturday afternoon in Huntington Beach. <\/p>\n<p>The Huntington Beach Police Department and Huntington Beach Fire Department responded Saturday to the crash at Pacific Coast Highway and Huntington Street, according to a social media post from the police department. <\/p>\n<p>Two people were pulled from the helicopter, and three people were injured on the street, police said. <\/p>\n<p>A video of the crash posted to social media shows the helicopter veering dangerously close to a building before spinning out of control and diving nose-first into a stretch of road or sidewalk at the edge of the beach. <\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OC_Scanner\/status\/1977126828478472194\/video\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">video<\/a> showed the chopper crashing onto some palm trees next to a seaside hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash was unclear.<\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"An FAA inspector looks at the crash site where a helicopter fell mid-flight\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760227875_79_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p>A Federal Aviation Administration employee looks at the site where a helicopter crash-landed  around 2:09 p.m. near the Cars \u2018N Copters in front of the Waterfront Beach Resort.<\/p>\n<p>(Allen J. Schaben\/Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n<p>PCH was closed between Beach Boulevard and Huntington Street, police said, noting that drivers should avoid the area and use alternate routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people were hospitalized after a helicopter crash Saturday afternoon in Huntington Beach. The Huntington Beach Police Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":295929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[68498,7910,53035,1582,276,6123,63402,151158,32807,151156,2961,224,2444,5337,151157,43291,3546,7463,5395,151159],"class_list":["post-295928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-alternate-route","tag-area","tag-beach-boulevard","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-driver","tag-helicopter-crash","tag-helicopter-crash-saturday-afternoon","tag-huntington-beach","tag-huntington-street","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-pacific-coast-highway","tag-pch","tag-people","tag-police-department","tag-saturday","tag-social-medium-post"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115358301239753694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}