{"id":41047,"date":"2025-11-10T15:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pilot-dies-after-helicopter-crash-at-patensie\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T15:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:53:13","slug":"pilot-dies-after-helicopter-crash-at-patensie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pilot-dies-after-helicopter-crash-at-patensie\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot dies after helicopter crash at Patensie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HUMANSDORP &#8211; Police have opened an inquest docket, after a pilot died when the helicopter crashed on a farm outside Patensie today, 10 November 2025.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that a female crop duster pilot (43) died instantly when the Robinson helicopter crashed on the Roodegrond farm after hitting power lines.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that the freak incident occurred at about 07:45, when the helicopter was spraying crops at the farm outside Patensie.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the deceased pilot is withheld until a formal identification process is concluded&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75217&#038;page=pilot-dies-after-helicopter-crash-at-patensie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUMANSDORP &#8211; Police have opened an inquest docket, after a pilot died when the helicopter crashed on a farm outside Patensie today, 10 November 2025. It is alleged that a female crop duster pilot (43) died instantly when the Robinson helicopter crashed on the Roodegrond farm after hitting power lines. It is believed that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/579118983_803963415965409_6357734528811699541_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/579118983_803963415965409_6357734528811699541_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}