{"id":1319036,"date":"2022-02-20T15:37:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T20:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1319036"},"modified":"2022-02-20T15:37:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T20:37:49","slug":"video-officer-killed-in-police-helicopter-crash-near-newport-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-officer-killed-in-police-helicopter-crash-near-newport-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Officer Killed in Police Helicopter Crash Near Newport Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvideo-officer-killed-in-police-helicopter-crash-near-newport-beach%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1319036&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/273815337_5190985577612632_5618304544218788874_n-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The second officer was not identified, but in a social media post Sunday the department <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HBPoliceDept\/status\/1495453476058550279\">said<\/a> the officer had been released from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to our HB community &#038; law enforcement family for the love &#038; support you continue to show Officer Vella\u2019s family &#038; our Department,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately known who was piloting the aircraft when it went down. Aerial video footage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KZM39s78ka4\">showed<\/a> the helicopter on its side in the water:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Additional footage showed first responders at the scene <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xHkMQ8-QICM\">pulling<\/a> the officers from the aircraft:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>A witness who spoke with CBS Los Angeles <a href=\"https:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2022\/02\/20\/huntington-beach-police-helicopter-crashes-in-newport-beach\/\">relayed<\/a> what happened in the moments before the crash, saying he and others were driving nearby and \u201cheard the pitch of the helicopter and it sounded like the helicopter was in distress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we looked at the helicopter it was out of control. It was obvious the helicopter was gonna go down. It did go down, and almost immediately sunk,\u201d the person added.<\/p>\n<p>First responders later held a procession for Vella when his body was taken to the Orange County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cThe National Transportation Safety Board and the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Department Major Accident Reconstruction Team are investigating the crash,\u201d the ABC 7 report concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second officer was not identified, but in a social media post Sunday the department said the officer had been released from the hospital. \u201cThank you to our HB community &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}