{"id":460655,"date":"2026-09-11T15:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460655\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:44:19","slug":"one-of-two-killed-in-san-diego-plane-crash-identified-as-45-year-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460655\/","title":{"rendered":"One of two killed in San Diego plane crash identified as 45-year-old man"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of two people who died when a small plane crashed at a San Diego airfield earlier this week was identified Thursday as a 45-year-old man.<\/p>\n

Roger Shimizu died at the scene of the crash late Monday afternoon<\/a> at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport, the county Medical Examiner\u2019s office said. His city of residence was not immediately available. The identity of the second person in the crash remained pending.<\/p>\n

The four-seat Cessna 172 may have stalled<\/a> before it hit the ground, according to a brief preliminary report the Federal Aviation Administration posted earlier this week.<\/p>\n

According to the National Transportation Safety Board, initial reporting indicates the crash happened during a \u201cgo-around,\u201d which is essentially an aborted landing attempt that requires the pilot to keep the plane aloft to re-enter the traffic pattern and try again.<\/p>\n

The NTSB said it preliminarily appears the plane caught fire after impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of two people who died when a small plane crashed at a San Diego airfield earlier this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,181,23,100,74,84,76,75,1696],"class_list":["post-460655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460655","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=460655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}