{"id":23089,"date":"2011-05-09T04:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=23089"},"modified":"2011-05-09T08:19:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T15:19:22","slug":"helicopter-crashes-at-downhill-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=23089","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter Crashes At Downhill Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/pappas_vid.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/pappas_vid.jpg','popup','width=414,height=345,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/pappas_vid-tm.jpg\" height=\"166\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Pappas Vid\" \/><\/a>During the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bbdownhill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Bill Downhill<\/a><\/strong> skateboarding race, held yesterday May 8, 2011, in Golden, Colorado, former pro snowboarder <strong>Chris Pappas<\/strong> caught a helicopter crash on video, according to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/video\/27821043\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Denver Channel<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter was being used to film the downhill race when it apparently got into trouble.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was pretty windy,&#8221; Pappas said. &#8220;He came in close to the trees and then i think he lost control and the tail came out and then he just dropped the last 10 or 20 feet.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Luckily, none of the four people in the helicopter nor anyone on the ground were injured.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/video\/27821043\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Denver Channel<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Buffalo Bill Downhill skateboarding race, held yesterday May 8, 2011, in Golden, Colorado, former pro snowboarder Chris Pappas caught a helicopter crash on video, according to The Denver Channel. The helicopter was being used to film the downhill race when it apparently got into trouble. It was pretty windy,&#8221; Pappas said. &#8220;He came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23089"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23092,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23089\/revisions\/23092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}