{"id":238491,"date":"2026-04-20T04:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238491\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T04:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:22:07","slug":"pilot-escapes-injury-after-plane-crashes-lands-on-roof-in-martin-countys-hungryland-preserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238491\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot escapes injury after plane crashes, lands on roof in Martin County&#8217;s Hungryland Preserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">A pilot is OK after a plane crashed late Saturday night in the Hungryland Preserve in Martin County, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A picture posted on Facebook by the Martin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office showed the small plane on its roof. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Shortly after the crash, the pilot confirmed the aircraft he was piloting had crashed in the preserve but indicated that he was not hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The pilot was the only person in the aircraft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff&#8217;s office said the appropriate aviation authorities were notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It&#8217;s unclear what caused the plane to go down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pilot is OK after a plane crashed late Saturday night in the Hungryland Preserve in Martin County,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[105113,28,171,173,172,105115,105114],"class_list":["post-238491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-couple-stranded-at-sea","tag-florida","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-scuba-diving-trip-goes-wrong","tag-stranded-couple-rescued"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238491","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=238491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}