{"id":154884,"date":"2026-04-02T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154884\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:00:08","slug":"plane-crashes-near-northeast-philadelphia-airport-2-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154884\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane crashes near Northeast Philadelphia Airport, 2 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Two people were injured after a plane crashed Wednesday afternoon at a park in the Torresdale section of Northeast Philadelphia, according to emergency response officials.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Piper PA-28, a small four-seat aircraft, crashed south of Northeast Philadelphia Airport around 3:30 p.m. near Fluehr Park at Grant and Torresdale avenues, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PhillyFireDept\/status\/2039447523845112189\" rel=\"nofollow\">Philadelphia Fire Department<\/a> said one person was extricated. They and another person onboard sustained injuries and were taken to the hospital in serious condition.<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-737121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/northeast-philadelphia-Plane-Crash004-copy-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A passenger sits besides the aircraft at the scene after a small airplane made a crash landing\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>A passenger sits besides the aircraft at the scene after a small airplane made a crash landing, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Fluehr Park in Northeast Philadelphia. (WHYY Photo\/ Joseph Kaczmarek)\n<\/p>\n<p>Fly Legacy Aviation, a flight school based in the city, told 6abc the plane experienced a loss of power over the Delaware River, leading to the instructor and student pilot on board having to make an emergency landing.\n  <\/p>\n<p>Video from <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/small-plane-crashes-park-philadelphias-torresdale-neighborhood\/18823758\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6abc<\/a> showed the aircraft smashed into a tree, the nose of the plane demolished, with pieces of the plane scattered on the ground.\n<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Jeffrey Thompson said the pilot was attempting to land at Northeast Philadelphia Airport when they issued a distress call. Thompson said the collision caused a small fuel spill but no fire.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the FAA\u2019s aircraft registry, the fixed-wing single-engine plane was built in 2021 and is registered to an owner based in New York.\n<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s Note: 6abc contributed to this report.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2327,69,71,70,7243],"class_list":["post-154884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-northeast-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-plane-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154884","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=154884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}