{"id":403951,"date":"2021-03-09T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T05:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=403951"},"modified":"2021-03-09T12:00:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T06:30:25","slug":"french-aviation-industrialist-olivier-dassault-killed-in-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/french-aviation-industrialist-olivier-dassault-killed-in-helicopter-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"French aviation industrialist Olivier Dassault killed in helicopter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A French billionaire aviation industrialist and member of parliament has died in a helicopter crash along with the pilot, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Olivier Dassault, 69, was heir to a powerful family business empire that made Falcon private jets and Rafale fighter planes and owned many other businesses including Le Figaro newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>A judicial inquiry for eventual manslaughter charges is underway after Sunday&#8217;s crash in the town of Touques in Normandy, according to the regional prosecutor&#8217;s office in Lisieux.<\/p>\n<p>The French national air accident investigation agency, the BEA, said the Airbus AS350 helicopter crashed just after takeoff from a private airfield. BEA investigators were travelling to the site on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A French billionaire aviation industrialist and member of parliament has died in a helicopter crash along with the pilot, authorities said. Olivier Dassault, 69, was heir to a powerful family business empire that made Falcon private jets and Rafale fighter planes and owned many other businesses including Le Figaro newspaper. A judicial inquiry for eventual manslaughter charges is underway after Sunday&#8217;s crash in the town of Touques in Normandy, according to the regional prosecutor&#8217;s office in Lisieux. The French national air accident investigation agency, the BEA, said the Airbus AS350 helicopter crashed just after takeoff from a private airfield. BEA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}