{"id":295802,"date":"2026-07-14T19:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/295802\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:37:17","slug":"3-die-in-small-plane-crash-in-northern-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/295802\/","title":{"rendered":"3 die in small plane crash in Northern New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HARRIETSTOWN, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Authorities say three people died in a small plane crash that happened Monday night northwest of Saranac Lake in Harrietstown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New York State Police say they were notified around 11:15 p.m. of a downed aircraft in the area of Hearf\u2019s Way and State Route 186, near the Adirondack Regional Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They say the two-engine Piper Aerostar took off from the airport just after 10:30 p.m. and lost communication soon after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Search crews located the aircraft, which they say had been destroyed by the impact and a post-crash fire in a wooded area. The FAA says the pilot and two passengers on board died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The plane was registered to Jasper Air LLC, a registered aviation company based in Ocean City, New Jersey. It arrived in Saranac Lake on Monday, according to FlightAware data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">National Transportation Safety Board investigators were expected to visit the site Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIETSTOWN, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Authorities say three people died in a small plane crash that happened Monday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[112657,1585,12724,17713,2214,2586,13357,15624,112656,1637,93,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,17712,1635,56,70061,18684,67257,9512,1631,1068],"class_list":["post-295802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-adirondack","tag-closed","tag-conservation","tag-country","tag-crash","tag-dec","tag-department","tag-environmental","tag-harrietstown","tag-lake","tag-new","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-north","tag-northern","tag-ny","tag-plane","tag-saranac","tag-small","tag-trail","tag-wcax","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}