{"id":805508,"date":"2026-10-17T11:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T11:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805508\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T11:34:09","slug":"boy-and-man-die-in-light-air-craft-crash-near-loch-lomond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805508\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy and man die in light air craft crash near Loch Lomond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier the plane had taken off from Cumbernauld Airport at 11:46 on Friday morning, before flying 15 minutes to Glasgow Airport. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It stayed there until about 13:00, before doing a two-hour flight north east to Newport on Tay before turning round and heading back to Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was on the ground at the airport for just over an hour before it took off again and started its final flight.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gavin Birch-Williams, managing director of Glasgow Airport, said: &#8220;We are aware of an incident involving a light aircraft that departed from Glasgow Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a deeply tragic event, and the thoughts and heartfelt sympathies from all at Glasgow Airport are with the friends and families affected.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier the plane had taken off from Cumbernauld Airport at 11:46 on Friday morning, before flying 15 minutes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-805508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}