{"id":456447,"date":"2026-09-07T18:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456447\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T18:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:38:25","slug":"2-children-woman-killed-in-ca-plane-crash-man-in-critical-condition-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456447\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Children, Woman Killed In CA Plane Crash; Man In Critical Condition: Authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    The children were pronounced dead at the scene and the adults were taken to a hospital, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Sep 6, 2026 8:21 AM PDT | Updated Sep 6, 2026 4:53 PM PDT<\/p>\n<p>FRESNO, CA \u2014 Two children and a woman were dead, and a man was in critical condition after <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/california\/fresno\/2-dead-2-critically-injured-after-small-plane-crashes-fresno-officials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a plane crash Saturday in Fresno<\/a>, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was identified Sunday as 41-year-old Auberry resident Danna Eady by Fresno County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Public Information Officer Tony Botti, who said in a video posted by the agency on Facebook that it will take time to identify the children found dead in the wreckage, but that they are about aged 8-12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subscribe\">\n  <a class=\"article-subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/california\/fresno\/subscribe?utm_source=amp&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=mobile&amp;utm_term=subscribe_in_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Emergency personnel responded around 1:50 p.m. to the 7300 block of North Blythe Avenue, authorities said. A fixed-wing, single-engine airplane was on fire atop the bluff of the San Joaquin River, according to the Fresno County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The children were pronounced dead at the scene and the adults were taken to a hospital, where the woman died, the sheriff&#8217;s office said Sunday, adding the man remained in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters extinguished the blaze, preventing it from spreading to nearby homes, authorities said, adding the sheriff&#8217;s office was holding a safety perimeter Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The National Transportation Safety Board said it had opened an investigation into Saturday&#8217;s crash of a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5 airplane, which impacted terrain shortly after takeoff from Sierra Skypark in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>An NTSB investigator was traveling to the crash site, officials said. After the wreckage is documented, it will be recovered and moved to a secure facility for further examination, officials added.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary report is expected within 30 days of the crash, the NTSB said.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno City Councilmember Mike Karbassi in a statement described the crash as &#8220;a rare and tragic situation in northwest Fresno.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I ask our community to pray for this family who are going through something unimaginable,&#8221; he said in the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The children were pronounced dead at the scene and the adults were taken to a hospital, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-456447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}