{"id":24790,"date":"2015-12-17T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/helicopter-lands-hard-at-valdez-airport-no-one-injured\/"},"modified":"2015-12-17T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T17:02:08","slug":"helicopter-lands-hard-at-valdez-airport-no-one-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/helicopter-lands-hard-at-valdez-airport-no-one-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter lands hard at Valdez airport; no one injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>VALDEZ \u2014 <\/strong>Officials in Valdez say three people on Wednesday survived a hard landing by a helicopter at the city airport.<\/p>\n<p>City public information officer Allie Hendrickson says a bystander witnessed the Vertical Solutions helicopter landing hard at Pioneer Field Airport and called emergency officials.<\/p>\n<p>An announcement by the Copper Valley Electric Association says two association employees had contracted the helicopter to patrol electricity transmission lines from the air and it took off just before 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>When the helicopter reached 75 feet, it lost power and fell.<\/p>\n<p>CVEA says the tail section separated from the rest of the helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>The association says its two employees were shaken but not injured. They were to be examined by a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Hendrickson says there was no damage to airport property or other aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VALDEZ \u2014 Officials in Valdez say three people on Wednesday survived a hard landing by a helicopter at the city airport. City public information officer Allie Hendrickson says a bystander witnessed the Vertical Solutions helicopter landing hard at Pioneer Field Airport and called emergency officials. An announcement by the Copper Valley Electric Association says two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-24790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24790"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}