{"id":281682,"date":"2026-05-23T03:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/281682\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T03:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:32:10","slug":"small-plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/281682\/","title":{"rendered":"Small plane makes emergency landing in field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Two people were on board when a small plane had to make an emergency landing in a Martin County field Friday afternoon, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The agency posted on its Facebook page that deputies and the Martin County Fire Rescue responded to the scene just after 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Small plane lands in Martin County field<\/p>\n<p>Fire Rescue said the Cessna 172 landed in a field west of Interstate 95 near a weigh station and Pratt Whitney Road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Early reports indicate the plane had some type of engine malfunction,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said. <\/p>\n<p>According to the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/flight\/N294PL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FlightAware website<\/a>, the aircraft took off at 2:41 p.m. from North Palm Beach County General Aviation Airport.<\/p>\n<p>A flight instructor and student pilot were aboard the plane.<\/p>\n<p>Martin County Fire Rescue said both were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Two people were on board when a small plane had to make an emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1160,12757,3118,171,173,172],"class_list":["post-281682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-martin-county","tag-martin-county-sheriffs-office","tag-plane-crash","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281682","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=281682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}