{"id":322490,"date":"2025-11-24T16:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/?p=1424695"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:14:05","slug":"inquest-begins-into-fatal-2023-sea-world-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=322490","title":{"rendered":"Inquest begins into fatal 2023 Sea World helicopter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI2NDAiIGhlaWdodD0iMzYwIj48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIj48YW5pbWF0ZSBhdHRyaWJ1dGVOYW1lPSJmaWxsIiB2YWx1ZXM9InJnYmEoMTUzLDE1MywxNTMsMC41KTtyZ2JhKDE1MywxNTMsMTUzLDAuMSk7cmdiYSgxNTMsMTUzLDE1MywwLjUpIiBkdXI9IjJzIiByZXBlYXRDb3VudD0iaW5kZWZpbml0ZSIgLz48L3JlY3Q+PC9zdmc+\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image wp-image-1424696 wp-post-1424695\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" data-public-id=\"Australian Aviation\/videoframe_129438_rs3nu2.png\" data-format=\"png\" data-transformations=\"c_fill,w_1200\/f_auto\" data-version=\"1763964713\" data-responsive=\"1\" data-size=\"1200 675\" data-delivery=\"upload\" onload=\";window.CLDBind?CLDBind(this):null;\" data-cloudinary=\"lazy\" \/>Four people were killed and six others injured on 2 January 2023 when two EC130 helicopters collided\u00a0mid-air\u00a0minutes away from Surfers Paradise. On the opening day of the inquest, several videos were shown of the moment of the crash, which had been filmed by witnesses on their smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four people were killed and six others injured on 2 January 2023 when two EC130 helicopters collided\u00a0mid-air\u00a0minutes away from Surfers Paradise. On the opening day of the inquest, several videos were shown of the moment of the crash, which had been fil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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-322490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/322490","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=322490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322491,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322490\/revisions\/322491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}