{
  "id": 2144278,
  "title": "Plane pilot killed in US collision with police helicopter",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/plane-pilot-killed-in-us-collision-with-police-helicopter",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-20T13:27:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3364728/plane-pilot-killed-us-collision-police-helicopter"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "An aeroplane pilot died on Wednesday after a violent collision with a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter near a runway at a small airport, but both state troopers aboard the helicopter survived, authorities said. The plane was coming down on the runway and veered into the helicopter that was near the ground, Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens, the state’s acting police commissioner, said during a…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}