{"id":390159,"date":"2026-09-04T09:44:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/390159\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:44:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:44:28","slug":"small-plane-crash-near-tampas-us-301-kills-2-faa-investigating-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/390159\/","title":{"rendered":"Small plane crash near Tampa&#8217;s US 301 kills 2, FAA investigating | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (WINK)\u2014 Two people died after a small aircraft crashed and burst into flames near North US Highway 301 this morning, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/18Gud88qL3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hillsborough County Fire Rescue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency dispatchers began receiving multiple 911 calls around 8:16 a.m. reporting a downed aircraft near the 7600 block of North US Highway 301. Firefighters arrived to find the plane heavily engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p>Crews quickly attacked the blaze and brought it under control in less than 10 minutes. No first responders were injured during the response.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/wink_investigations\/ntsb-releases-final-report-on-i-75-naples-plane-crash\/article_32bd162c-8893-4373-b0e9-7dddcd9e7378.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NTSB releases final report on I-75 Naples plane crash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two people on board the aircraft were confirmed deceased at the scene. The Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office secured the area pending the arrival of federal investigators.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA and NTSB will investigate the circumstances surrounding the crash. Hillsborough County Fire Rescue extended its deepest sympathies to the families and loved ones of those who died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WINK)\u2014 Two people died after a small aircraft crashed and burst into flames near North US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[73978,31563,7811,48035,156041,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-390159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-aviation-accidents-and-incidents","tag-aviation-safety","tag-federal-aviation-administration","tag-hillsborough-county-sheriff","tag-north-us","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390159","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=390159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}