{"id":29308,"date":"2017-05-24T01:55:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T08:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/helicopter-crashes-on-herbert-glacier-only-minor-injuries-reported\/"},"modified":"2017-05-24T01:55:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T08:55:47","slug":"helicopter-crashes-on-herbert-glacier-only-minor-injuries-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/helicopter-crashes-on-herbert-glacier-only-minor-injuries-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter crashes on Herbert Glacier, only minor injuries reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A helicopter returning from a tour crashed on a glacier Monday night, but only minor injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A Coastal Helicopter was returning to Juneau at approximately 6 p.m. when it contacted the snow on the Herbert Glacier and received some damage,&rdquo; General Manager Mike Wilson said in a prepared statement. &ldquo;With passenger and crew safety a priority, all on board were taken to Bartlett Regional Hospital as a precaution, evaluated and released.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The injuries sustained reportedly were limited to sprains.<\/p>\n<p>All pertinent agencies have been notified and an investigation is underway, Wilson said, adding the National Transportation Safety Board has released the aircraft to the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A helicopter returning from a tour crashed on a glacier Monday night, but only minor injuries were reported. &ldquo;A Coastal Helicopter was returning to Juneau at approximately 6 p.m. when it contacted the snow on the Herbert Glacier and received some damage,&rdquo; General Manager Mike Wilson said in a prepared statement. &ldquo;With passenger and crew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":29309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-29308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29308","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=29308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29308"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=29308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}