{"id":471153,"date":"2026-09-21T20:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471153\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T20:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:10:15","slug":"montgomery-field-airplane-crash-second-person-idd-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471153\/","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery Field Airplane Crash, second person ID\u2019d \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have publicly identified the second of two men who died in a fiery Labor Day plane crash at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Frederic Hewett, 37, was aboard a Cessna 172 that went down at the Serra Mesa general-aviation airport shortly before 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 7, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Hewett, an El Cajon resident, died at the scene of the accident along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/one-victim-id-in-montgomery-gibbs-airport-plane-crash-in-san-diego\/4072154\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the other occupant of the aircraft, Roger Shimizu<\/a>, 45, the agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The four-seat plane appeared to stall during a landing approach, its left wing dipping down before the aircraft spun to the ground and burst into flames, according to a preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The crash may have occurred immediately following an aborted landing attempt, a maneuver possibly undertaken as part of a training exercise for a student pilot, officials told news crews.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft was registered to an Idaho resident who is the founder of Fly San Diego, a flight school that operates out of the city airport between Interstate 15 and state Route 163, according to FAA records and news reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have publicly identified the second of two men who died in a fiery Labor Day plane crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[79,74,84,76,75],"class_list":["post-471153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-kearny-mesa","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471153","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=471153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}