{"id":456783,"date":"2026-09-08T02:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T02:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456783\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T02:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T02:26:09","slug":"2-dead-in-plane-crash-at-montgomery-gibbs-executive-airport-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456783\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead in plane crash at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small plane crashed at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport on Monday evening, killing two people, San Diego police said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was reported around 5:21 p.m. by a witness, said police Officer John Buttle. The airport is in the Kearny Mesa area, north of Aero Drive and south of Balboa Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic on city streets was not affected by the crash, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"San Diego, CA - September 7: San Diego Fire-Rescue engines park on scene of a fatal airplane crash at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in Kearny Mesa on September 7, 2026 in San Diego, CA. (K.C. Alfred \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)\" width=\"4800\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SUT-L-labordaycrash-002.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"10022798\" \/>San Diego, CA \u2013 September 7: San Diego Fire-Rescue engines park on scene of a fatal airplane crash at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in Kearny Mesa on September 7, 2026 in San Diego, CA.  (K.C. Alfred \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n<p>Scott Schroeder, who was in an industrial area on Balboa Avenue watching the planes, said he saw what he believed was a two-passenger plane. He said he saw it dip its right wing and hit at about a 45-degree angle, adding that the plane was down for a few second before catching fire.<\/p>\n<p>The type of plane also wasn\u2019t immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at the city-owned general aviation airport, which was closed after the incident, Buttle said.<\/p>\n<p>About 30 fire personnel responded, according to a tweet from the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.<\/p>\n<p>No other information was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small plane crashed at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport on Monday evening, killing two people, San Diego police said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[138,100,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-456783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456783","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=456783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}