{"id":158583,"date":"2026-04-06T15:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158583\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:26:12","slug":"plane-makes-emergency-landing-on-i-78-in-berks-county-no-injuries-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158583\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane makes emergency landing on I-78 in Berks County, no injuries reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_20260404_123527-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Plane on I-78 (Photo by Starla Black) <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">BERKS COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; A plane made an emergency landing on a major highway in Berks County Saturday morning, disrupting traffic.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The incident happened on Interstate 78 eastbound near mile marker 45 in Weisenberg Township, according to emergency dispatch information.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Authorities said a plane landed on the highway, prompting lane closures in both directions.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p> Traffic impact <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">All lanes were shut down following the emergency landing.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">It\u2019s unclear how long the closures lasted or when traffic resumed.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Officials have not released details about what led to the emergency landing.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">It\u2019s also unclear how many people were on board the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written using information from emergency dispatch reports.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/berks-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berks County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Plane on I-78 (Photo by Starla Black) BERKS COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; A plane made an emergency landing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,139,539,128,130,129,593],"class_list":["post-158583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158583","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=158583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}