{"id":239634,"date":"2026-04-20T23:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239634\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T23:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:44:11","slug":"pilot-survives-aircraft-crash-in-hungryland-preserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239634\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot survives aircraft crash in Hungryland Preserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced Sunday morning that a pilot survived a small airplane crash in the Hungryland Preserve, near Southwest Pratt Whitney Road.The sheriff\u2019s office said it responded to reports of an emergency landing late Saturday night.The sheriff&#8217;s office said the pilot confirmed the aircraft crashed within the preserve and indicated he was OK.The pilot was the only person on the aircraft and Martin County Fire Rescue said the pilot was transported to a local hospital. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue personnel also responded to the crash.Officials are investigating the cause of the incident.Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tMARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced Sunday morning that a pilot survived a small airplane crash in the Hungryland Preserve, near Southwest Pratt Whitney Road.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office said it responded to reports of an emergency landing late Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"A pilot survived a small airplane crash in the Hungryland Preserve late Saturday night, according to the Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office.\" title=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ea49ceeb-af23-46e2-b249-59f055ccfc4e.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tMartin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA pilot survived a small airplane crash in the Hungryland Preserve late Saturday night, according to the Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office said the pilot confirmed the aircraft crashed within the preserve and indicated he was OK.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"A pilot survived a small airplane crash in the Hungryland Preserve late Saturday night, according to the Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office.\" title=\"Pilot survives aircraft crash in Hungryland Preserve\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5504e2ca-c406-49b0-af5f-0eece248fdd5.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tMartin County Fire Rescue\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA pilot survived a small airplane crash in the Hungryland Preserve late Saturday night, according to the Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot was the only person on the aircraft and Martin County Fire Rescue said the pilot was transported to a local hospital. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue personnel also responded to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are investigating the cause of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced Sunday morning that a pilot survived a small airplane crash in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[106113,33204,106114,675,15615,677,5127,660,2772,106116,18446,106112,171,173,172,2631,106115,16857,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-239634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-aircraft-crash","9":"tag-cause","10":"tag-hungryland-preserve","11":"tag-local-coverage","12":"tag-martin-county-sheriff","13":"tag-neighborhood","14":"tag-news-app","15":"tag-office","16":"tag-official","17":"tag-only-person","18":"tag-pilot","19":"tag-pilot-survives-aircraft-crash-in-hungryland-preserve","20":"tag-port-st-lucie","21":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","22":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","23":"tag-sheriff","24":"tag-small-airplane-crash","25":"tag-sunday-morning","26":"tag-wpbf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239634","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=239634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}