{"id":21678,"date":"2024-03-21T16:05:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/?p=1381855"},"modified":"2024-03-21T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:05:21","slug":"nt-helicopter-crash-pilot-was-unqualified-for-night-flying-says-atsb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=21678","title":{"rendered":"NT helicopter crash pilot was unqualified for night flying, says ATSB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AO-2023-058-Figure_5-1024x578.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image wp-image-1381858 wp-post-1381855\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AO-2023-058-Figure_5-770x431.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AO-2023-058-Figure_5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AO-2023-058-Figure_5-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AO-2023-058-Figure_5-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AO-2023-058-Figure_5-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AO-2023-058-Figure_5-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AO-2023-058-Figure_5-157x88.jpg 157w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AO-2023-058-Figure_5-770x431.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>The helicopter, VH-DLD, crashed near Gorrie Station south of Katherine on 7 December, having left nearby Bloodwood Station at around 7:30pm. The ATSB believes the pilot lost visuals after flying into bushfire smoke. Search parties found the wreckage two days later, with the pilot fatally injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The helicopter, VH-DLD, crashed near Gorrie Station south of Katherine on 7 December, having left nearby Bloodwood Station at around 7:30pm. The ATSB believes the pilot lost visuals after flying into bushfire smoke. Search parties found the wreckage tw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,312,474,471],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-21678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-aviation","category-helicopters","category-news","tag-australian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21679,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21678\/revisions\/21679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}