{"id":107563,"date":"2024-10-21T12:03:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T12:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/helicopter-crashes-into-houston-radio-tower-killing-four-police\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T12:03:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T12:03:27","slug":"helicopter-crashes-into-houston-radio-tower-killing-four-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/helicopter-crashes-into-houston-radio-tower-killing-four-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter crashes into Houston radio tower killing four: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-21\/Untitled%20design%20%2828%29.png\" alt><figcaption>Houston Fire Department<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(HOUSTON) &#8212; A helicopter that crashed into a radio tower in Houston, Texas, Sunday left four people killed, including a child, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at approximately 7:54 p.m. local time, when a private aircraft struck a radio tower in Houston&#8217;s Second Ward, Houston police said in a press conference Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>All four of the individuals killed were aboard the helicopter and no one on the ground was injured in the crash, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>No residences and structures were impacted except for the radio tower, police said, but noted the fire that erupted from the crash spanned two to three blocks.<\/p>\n<p>The location of the crash was cited as the intersection of Engelke Street and N. Ennis Street, just five minutes away from Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros.<\/p>\n<p>Houston Fire Department officials extinguished the fire after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The crash is being investigated by Houston authorities, the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Fire Department (HOUSTON) &#8212; A helicopter that crashed into a radio tower in Houston, Texas, Sunday left four people killed, including a child, officials said. The crash happened at approximately 7:54 p.m. local time, when a private aircraft struck a radio tower in Houston&#8217;s Second Ward, Houston police said<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/helicopter-crashes-into-houston-radio-tower-killing-four-police\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}