{"id":17801,"date":"2025-10-28T16:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/17801\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:18:23","slug":"two-men-identified-in-erie-airport-small-plane-crash-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/17801\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men identified in Erie Airport small plane crash | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Erie Airport small plane crash\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1662\" height=\"1247\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68ffe16f3ca6f.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The small aircraft that crashed at Erie Municipal Airport on Sunday, October 19.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                    Courtesy of Officer Shimko of the Erie Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Two young men from out of state died when their small aircraft crashed at Erie Municipal Airport Sunday afternoon, Oct. 19, according to an Oct. 27 news release from the Weld County Coroner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The victims have been identified as Niles Tilenius, age 22, from San Mateo County, California, and William Johnson, age 21, of Hillsborough County, Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident is still under review by the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The small aircraft that crashed at Erie Municipal Airport on Sunday, October 19. \u00a0 Courtesy of Officer Shimko&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,7247,137,12273,7243,12678,12677],"class_list":["post-17801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-municipal-airport","tag-erie-news","tag-niles-tilenius","tag-plane-crash","tag-weld-county-coroner","tag-william-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801","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=17801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}