{"id":500564,"date":"2026-10-19T00:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T00:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500564\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T00:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T00:16:15","slug":"pilot-reported-engine-issues-before-san-jose-prop-plane-crash-faa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500564\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot reported \u2018engine issues\u2019 before San Jose prop plane crash: FAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792368975_144_prop-plane-sj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-47e62d5a=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-47e62d5a=\"\">The fire department said two adults and a child were aboard the plane and were taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries. ( San Jose Fire Department) <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211; The Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday said the pilot of a small prop plane that crashed in San Jose reported having &#8220;engine issues&#8221; before the aircraft went down.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The FAA told KTVU that the pilot of the Cessna 177 reported the troubles just before crashing near Capitol Expressway and Excalibur Drive around 3:10 p.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Two adults and a child who were aboard the plane were taken to a hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, the San Jose Police Department said. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The crash resulted in a minor fuel leak, which was absorbed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The SJPD also said that drugs and alcohol did not appear to be factors in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this article came from the Federal Aviation Administration and previous KTVU reporting.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/santa-clara-county\/san-jose\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article The fire department said two adults and a child were aboard the plane and were taken to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1184,100,88,90,89,198,1181],"class_list":["post-500564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500564","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=500564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}