{"id":143834,"date":"2011-11-23T17:56:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T13:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=143834"},"modified":"2011-11-23T17:56:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T13:56:43","slug":"video-chopper-crashes-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/11\/23\/video-chopper-crashes-in-new-zealand.html","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Chopper Crashes in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A helicopter helping to install a Christmas tree on Auckland&#8217;s waterfront has crashed in dramatic fashion, but the pilot escaped serious injury, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-500202_162-57330157\/dramatic-video-chopper-crashes-in-new-zealand\/\">CBS News<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Footage captured by Television New Zealand on Wednesday shows the pilot slowly descending from about 25 feet when the chopper&#8217;s blades appear to get caught in cables attached to scaffolding. The rear of the helicopter snaps and the pilot is tossed about as the helicopter smashes into the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The television station reports that pilot Greg Gribble, who has 20 years experience, says he&#8217;s &#8220;doing fine&#8221; after his ordeal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OJNHj0V9yUY?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A helicopter helping to install a Christmas tree on Auckland&#8217;s waterfront has crashed in dramatic fashion, but the pilot escaped serious injury.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[34996,34998,34997,11156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}