{"id":239810,"date":"2026-04-21T02:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239810\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T02:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:30:11","slug":"pasco-county-deputies-identify-man-in-fatal-cessna-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239810\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasco County deputies identify man in fatal Cessna crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 20, 2026 at 8:09 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PASCO COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Christina Galbiati told reporters her kids were playing and she was drinking coffee when she saw a low-flying plane in the sky on Sunday in Florida\u2019s Pasco County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Michael Bailey had departed from Tampa North Aero Park in the Cessna 401B, and he crashed in a Wesley Chapel neighborhood, according to the FAA. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was 59, according to the Pasco County Sheriff\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI think that the pilot is a hero,\u201d Galbiati told reporters on Monday. \u201cHe knew that it was going down, and he found a perfect spot to land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Cessna 401B crashed near Aldus Drive in the Grand Oaks area and caught on fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe went straight in between houses, which I imagine is a pretty hard thing to do,\u201d Galbiati said. \u201cHe landed right in between those two unfenced yards. It takes seconds to make that decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There was property damage, but no one was injured. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related social media post<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jenise Fernandez\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/e6dda417-4f89-4401-aa43-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jenise Fernandez<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jenise Fernandez is a six-time Emmy award winning anchor and reporter at Local 10 News. Currently, she anchors the 3 p.m. and 10 p.m. news, Monday through Friday. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 20, 2026 at 8:09 PM PASCO COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Christina Galbiati told reporters her kids were playing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-239810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239810","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=239810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}