{"id":12821,"date":"2026-06-25T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12821"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:25:00","slug":"video-footage-of-the-crash-of-the-firefighting-helicopter-in-metsovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12821","title":{"rendered":"Video footage of the crash of the firefighting helicopter in Metsovo"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the moment of the crash <\/b>of the helicopter<\/b> of the Fire Department<\/b> at the Aos Reservoir<\/b>, in Metsovo <\/b> captured video<\/b> evidence. <\/p>\n

Specifically, as shown in the images, while drawing water from the Aoos Reservoir, the rear of the helicopter touched the water\u2019s surface and the helicopter crashed<\/b>. <\/p>\n

This is one of the BELL-type helicopters leased by the Fire Department<\/b>, which was operating to extinguish a fire nearby<\/b>. <\/p>\n

According to reports, the pilot and co-pilot<\/b>, the two people who were on board<\/b> the helicopter suffered minor injuries, with no danger to their health<\/b>. <\/p>\n

MEGA reports that the two passengers swam to shore.<\/b><\/p>\n

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The Fire Department\u2019s announcement: <\/b><\/p>\n

During an aerial firefighting operation at the \u201cAvgo\u201d site in Grevena, a BELL helicopter chartered by the Fire Department, with a crew of two\u2014one Greek national and one foreign national serving as a liaison\u2014crashed into the Aoos Reservoir in Grevena. <\/p>\n

The helicopter took off from Ioannina Airport. Both crew members were rescued. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\n At the moment the Fire Department helicopter crashed into the Aoos Reservoir in Metsovo, a video was recorded….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}