{"id":6797,"date":"2025-07-19T00:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T00:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6797\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T00:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T00:43:08","slug":"boy-16-struck-and-killed-after-small-plane-crashes-in-lake-scugog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6797\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 16, struck and killed after small plane crashes in Lake Scugog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage boy has died after he was struck by a plane that crashed on Lake Scugog on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Durham Regional Police Service say the 16-year-old was struck on a dock at the time the small plane crashed.<\/p>\n<p>Two adults who were on the plane survived the crash, which took place near Caesarea at around 12:25 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pilot of the aircraft was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries, and the passenger of the plane also had minor injuries,\u201d police confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is on the scene and conducting an investigation into the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Photos from the scene show the mangled plane upside down, resting on a boat that\u2019s tied to a dock.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not yet clear why the plane crashed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boy has died after he was struck by a plane that crashed on Lake Scugog on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-6797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}