{"id":456989,"date":"2026-09-08T07:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456989\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T07:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:24:21","slug":"2-killed-in-horror-plane-crash-at-san-diego-airport-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456989\/","title":{"rendered":"2 killed in horror plane crash at San Diego airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were killed when a small plane crashed at a San Diego airport Monday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at the Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in Kearny Mesa after police received a report of the wreck around 5:21 p.m., according to the San Diego Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>A plane crash left two people dead on Monday, Sept. 7, 2026, at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport. Fox 5<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 30 SDFD personnel are on scene on the runway at the Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport, according to SDFD X\/@SDFD<\/p>\n<p>Two people were killed in a plane crash at a California airport. CBS 8 San Diego<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApproximately 30 SDFD personnel are on scene of a small plane on fire on the runway at the Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport. The airport will be temporarily closed during emergency operations,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SDFD\/status\/2097127841242751233?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the San Diego Fire-Rescue posted on X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The San Diego Police Department said that the circumstances surrounding the crash were unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses reported seeing the aircraft on fire while working nearby, <a href=\"https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\/news\/local-news\/montgomery-gibbs-airport-plane-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to Fox 5 San Diego<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were killed in a plane crash at a California airport. CBS 8 San Diego<\/p>\n<p>A plane crashed at the Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in Kearny Mesa on Sept. 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>An aerial view shows State Route 163 running next to Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026, in San Diego, California. The San Diego Union-Tribune via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The tragic incident comes just two days after another <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/07\/us-news\/fourth-person-dies-in-california-plane-crash-that-killed-three\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plane crash in Fresno claimed the lives of all four of its occupants. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flight instructor Danna Eady, 41, her husband Craig, 44, and their two sons, Pavel, 10, and Remus, 13, perished after the fiery wreck near the Sierra Sky Park Airport on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters, cops and sheriff\u2019s deputies arrived to find plane wreckage on a bluff near the river as flames tore across a nearby hillside. The aircraft was a fixed-wing, single-engine plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were killed when a small plane crashed at a San Diego airport Monday, officials said. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,4589,4182,14819,74,3586],"class_list":["post-456989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-deaths","tag-metro","tag-plane-crashes","tag-san-diego","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456989","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=456989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}