{"id":866133,"date":"2026-08-21T11:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866133\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T11:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:36:11","slug":"one-dead-after-plane-makes-emergency-landing-on-prince-george-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866133\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after plane makes emergency landing on Prince George road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A plane that made an emergency landing on a Prince George roadway Thursday afternoon resulted in a fatal collision involving two vehicles, according to RCMP.<\/p>\n<p>Prince George RCMP said the aircraft came down on Foothills Boulevard, approximately 1.5 kilometres north of North Nechako Road, at around 2:20 p.m. on Aug. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Police reported that two vehicles were involved during the emergency landing. One person in one of the vehicles was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The extent of injuries suffered by occupants of the second vehicle and those aboard the aircraft has not yet been determined.<\/p>\n<p>BC Emergency Health Services attended the scene and say they treated 10 people, with two being transported to hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Foothills Boulevard has been closed to traffic in both directions and is expected to remain closed overnight and into Friday as investigators examine the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has assumed responsibility for the investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP have not yet released additional details about the aircraft involved or the identity of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Vancouver as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=vancouver.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778189171_473_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plane that made an emergency landing on a Prince George roadway Thursday afternoon resulted in a fatal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-866133","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\/866133","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=866133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}