{"id":233961,"date":"2026-04-16T08:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233961\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:31:16","slug":"family-remembers-florida-pilot-father-of-4-killed-in-plane-crash-near-williston-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233961\/","title":{"rendered":"Family remembers Florida pilot, father of 4, killed in plane crash near Williston airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WILLISTON, Fla. (WCJB) \u2014 The family of a Florida man killed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/04\/13\/levy-county-small-plane-crash-kills-2-near-williston-regional-airport\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/04\/13\/levy-county-small-plane-crash-kills-2-near-williston-regional-airport\/\">plane crash<\/a> in Levy County earlier this week is remembering him through online posts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They\u2019ve identified one of the two victims as Justin Westbrooks, a father of four. Pictures from an <a href=\"https:\/\/gofund.me\/bc940f531\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/gofund.me\/bc940f531\">online fundraiser<\/a> show Westbrooks with his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was also a pilot for Delta. He died Monday when his AT-6D \u201cTexan\u201d plane crashed near the Williston Regional Airport. It was a World War II-era plane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/04\/14\/ntsb-investigates-deadly-small-plane-crash-near-williston-regional-airport\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/04\/14\/ntsb-investigates-deadly-small-plane-crash-near-williston-regional-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\">NTSB investigates deadly small plane crash near Williston Regional Airport<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/04\/14\/ntsb-investigates-deadly-small-plane-crash-near-williston-regional-airport\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/04\/14\/ntsb-investigates-deadly-small-plane-crash-near-williston-regional-airport\/\">NTSB is investigating<\/a>. The name of the other person who died has not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/04\/13\/levy-county-small-plane-crash-kills-2-near-williston-regional-airport\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/04\/13\/levy-county-small-plane-crash-kills-2-near-williston-regional-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\">Levy County small plane crash kills 2 near Williston Regional Airport<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILLISTON, Fla. (WCJB) \u2014 The family of a Florida man killed in a plane crash in Levy County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[104464,104465,28,30,29,104462,104461,104463],"class_list":["post-233961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-at-6-texan-aircraft","tag-delta-pilot-crash","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-justin-westbrooks","tag-levy-county-plane-crash","tag-williston-regional-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}