{"id":10561,"date":"2025-10-21T22:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/10561\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:12:11","slug":"2-killed-in-small-plane-crash-at-erie-municipal-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/10561\/","title":{"rendered":"2 killed in small plane crash at Erie Municipal Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people died Sunday when a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/10\/19\/erie-weld-county-plane-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">small plane crashed at Erie Municipal Airport in northern Colorado<\/a>, according to the police department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are heartbroken to share that there were no survivors in the single-engine plane crash that occurred earlier today, east of the Erie Municipal Airport runway,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/eriecopolice\/status\/1980105627717579082?s=46&amp;t=n303GdapEaXSU1niS64JGg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">police said in an 8:55 p.m. statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The plane\u2019s two occupants were not Colorado residents, police said. The pair\u2019s identities had not been released as of Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at about 3:45 p.m. Sunday, Erie Police Department spokesperson Amber Luttrell said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators with the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board were working to identify the cause of the crash, she said. As of Sunday evening, the Erie Municipal Airport at 395 Airport Drive remained closed for the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Neither agency responded to requests for comment, but NTSB officials <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NTSB_Newsroom\/status\/1980082896271556820\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">stated on social media<\/a> that the crashed plane was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aopa.org\/go-fly\/aircraft-and-ownership\/aircraft-guide\/aircraft\/jmb-vl3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">JMB Aircraft VL-3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.denverpost.com\/dp\/preference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 20, 2025 at 6:56 AM MDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people died Sunday when a small plane crashed at Erie Municipal Airport in northern Colorado, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1676,202,136,138,137,1677,241,139,1680],"class_list":{"0":"post-10561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-colorado","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-erie","11":"tag-erie-headlines","12":"tag-erie-news","13":"tag-front-range","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-weld-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}