{"id":389947,"date":"2026-09-04T03:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389947\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T03:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:38:19","slug":"pilot-and-passenger-identified-in-fatal-tampa-plane-crash-hcso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389947\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot and passenger identified in fatal Tampa plane crash: HCSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The two people killed in a Tampa plane crash on Thursday morning near U.S. Highway 301 have been identified.<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (HCSO) said the pilot has been identified as David Saimbanes, 59 and Dawn Stone, 53.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-left\">WATCH: Two people confirmed dead in Tampa plane crash: HCFR<\/p>\n<p>Two people confirmed dead in Tampa plane crash: HCFR<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough County Fire Rescue (HCFR) responded to the crash near the 7600 block of North U.S. 301 in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788493096_280_.png\" alt=\"Two people confirmed dead in Tampa plane crash: HCFR\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough County Fire Rescue<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 8:16 a.m., HCFR&#8217;s Emergency Dispatch Communications Center began receiving multiple 911 calls about the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, firefighters found a small aircraft heavily involved in fire.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788493096_931_.jpeg\" alt=\"Two people confirmed dead in Tampa plane crash: HCFR\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hills. County Fire Rescue<\/p>\n<p>Crews quickly attacked the fire and brought the blaze under control.<\/p>\n<p>Two individuals were confirmed deceased.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788493097_116_.jpeg\" alt=\"Two people confirmed dead in Tampa plane crash: HCFR\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough County Fire Rescue<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will investigate the circumstances surrounding the crash.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788493099_651_JULIE.SALOMONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pasco County physician reunites with medical team after widowmaker heart attack<\/p>\n<p>A Pasco County internal medicine physician was reunited Tuesday with the medical team who saved her life after she suffered a widowmaker heart attack nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Physician suffers heart attack at age 44<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The two people killed in a Tampa plane crash on Thursday morning near U.S. Highway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1776,276,10258,135,5910,108336,3670,137,136,80988,208],"class_list":["post-389947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crash","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-plane","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-28-news","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us-301","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389947","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=389947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}