On 07.30.20 at 0642 hrs. a gyro-copter crashed on the runway at the York Airport in Jackson Township.<\/p>\n
The gyro-copter was a single person unit.\u00a0 It was being flown by a 58 year old man who is a resident of Abbottstown, PA.\u00a0 The operator is a licensed pilot.<\/p>\n
He was to be practicing takeoffs when the gyro-copter crashed.\u00a0 He was to be approximately six inches off the ground and was returning to the runway when for unknown reasons the aircraft unexpectedly tilted.<\/p>\n
A blade on the propeller made contact with the ground.\u00a0 This contact caused the gyro-copter to roll and come to rest in a field off of the runway.<\/p>\n
The pilot was taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries. The FAA was notified of an experimental aircraft crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On 07.30.20 at 0642 hrs. a gyro-copter crashed on the runway at the York Airport in Jackson Township. The gyro-copter was a single person unit.\u00a0 It was being flown by a 58 year old man who is a resident of Abbottstown, PA.\u00a0 The operator is a licensed pilot. He was to be practicing takeoffs when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-15416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jackson-twp-2020","tag-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15418,"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15416\/revisions\/15418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}