{"id":15213,"date":"2017-09-08T16:29:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/?p=15213"},"modified":"2019-06-01T08:58:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T12:58:23","slug":"duke-life-flight-helicopter-crash-kills-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/duke-life-flight-helicopter-crash-kills-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke Life Flight Helicopter Crash Kills Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> \u2014\u00a0Pilot, Nurse, Medic and Patient Perish in Helicopter Crash<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>BELVIDERE, NC &#8211;\u00a0<span>Four people were killed Friday when a Duke Life Flight medical helicopter crashed in northeast North Carolina, according to the State Highway Patrol.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"g-row story-text\">\n<p>The crash occurred in a grassy field near a wind farm outside the town of Belvidere, south of the Perquimans-Gates county line.<\/p>\n<p><span>The helicopter was en route to Duke University Hospital in Durham from Sentara Albemarle Medical Center in Elizabeth City when it went down, officials said. A pilot, two medical personnel and a patient were aboard at the time, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The names of the victims haven&#8217;t been released.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board went to the crash site Friday afternoon to assist with the investigation into the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[divider style=&#8221;4&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Want EMS and air medical tips sent straight to your inbox? Get <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The Net<\/strong><\/span> newsletter. Sign up here (it&#8217;s free):<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>[shortcode-variables slug=&#8221;optin-form&#8221;]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BELVIDERE, NC &#8211;\u00a0Four people were killed Friday when a Duke Life Flight medical helicopter crashed in northeast North Carolina, according to the State Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":15214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15213"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}