{"id":469595,"date":"2026-09-20T02:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T02:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/469595\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T02:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T02:18:08","slug":"fresno-plane-crash-kills-eady-family-of-four-near-sky-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/469595\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno plane crash kills Eady family of four near Sky Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Labor Day weekend plane crash near Sierra Sky Park Airport in Fresno killed a husband, wife and their two young sons, leaving two surviving teenage children and a grieving Central Valley community behind.<\/p>\n

Investigators from federal agencies are working to determine what caused the single-engine aircraft to go down. Those findings could take up to a year to be released.<\/p>\n

Here are key takeaways \"Danna Danna Eday and her husband, Craig Eday, were found outside the plane wreckage near Sierra Sky Park and taken to a hospital, where they both died from their injuries in the days following the crash. The couples two young sons were pronounced deceased on the scene Saturday afternoon. Credit: The Eady Family support campaign Danna and Craig Eady, both 41, and their two youngest sons, Remus and Pavel, all died after the family\u2019s plane crashed in northwest Fresno, leaving a community in mourning<\/a> and two older siblings, Lucien, 17, and Felicity, 18, without their parents.First responders found the fixed-wing, single-engine aircraft that had crashed off the runway<\/a> into the San Joaquin River bottom area around 1:45 p.m. Saturday, sparking a fire that burned 5 acres.Danna Eady of Auberry was identified as the first adult victim to die at the hospital, while her husband initially remained in critical condition and the two children were pronounced dead at the scene<\/a>.Craig Eady died Monday morning on Sept. 7 from his injuries, becoming the fourth victim of the Saturday crash<\/a>, the Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced.Danna Eady was a certified flight instructor at Reedley College who had joined the school in August 2025 and served as a mentor to five young women in the flight science program<\/a> pursuing careers as pilots.Reedley College President Jerry Buckley said in a statement that \u201cDanna was a valued member of our Flight Science Department and a tremendous certified flight instructor,\u201d and the school canceled flight sciences classes Tuesday<\/a> and made counseling available.Sheriff\u2019s spokesperson Tony Botti said the plane appeared to have been departing Sky Park<\/a>, though its destination and time in the air remain unclear.Friends launched a family support fundraiser that had raised more than $73,000<\/a> by Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 8 to help the two surviving Eady children.The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating, but full findings on the crash<\/a> likely will not be released for up to a year.<\/p>\n

Original stories by Liliana Fannin and Anthony Galaviz<\/p>\n

This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence based on our own originally reported, written and published content. Before publishing, journalists reviewed this content in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Labor Day weekend plane crash near Sierra Sky Park Airport in Fresno killed a husband, wife and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-469595","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\/469595","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=469595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}