{"id":389327,"date":"2026-09-03T15:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389327\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T15:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:08:12","slug":"2-dead-after-small-aircraft-crashes-catches-fire-in-hillsborough-county-hcfr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389327\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead after small aircraft crashes, catches fire in Hillsborough County: HCFR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hcfr-p-cf-pic-1-9.3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">Courtesy: Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">EAST LAKE-ORIENT PARK, Fla. &#8211; Two people are dead after a small aircraft crashed and caught fire Thursday morning in Hillsborough County, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Hillsborough County Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The crash happened around 8:16 a.m. in a wooded area near U.S. 301 and Maislin Drive.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HCSO said multiple 911 calls came in reporting that an aircraft had gone down. When firefighters arrived, the aircraft was fully engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vlcsnap-2026-09-03-10h47m31s898.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Courtesy: Hillsborough County Fire Rescue <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Crews extinguished the fire in less than 10 minutes, officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Two people aboard the aircraft were killed in the crash. Officials said the damage to the aircraft is extensive.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials said the aircraft took off from Tampa Executive Airport before the crash.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials said they are awaiting an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The cause of the crash has not been released at this time.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hcfr-p-cf-fi-9.3.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Courtesy: Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">This is a developing story. FOX 13 News will continue to update this story as more information is released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by Hillsborough County Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/fire\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fire<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office\u00a0 EAST LAKE-ORIENT PARK, Fla. &#8211; Two people are dead after a small&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[855,47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-389327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-fire","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389327","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=389327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}