{"id":219109,"date":"2026-06-14T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/219109\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T18:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:35:08","slug":"all-12-occupants-dead-in-missouri-plane-crash-state-highway-patrol-says-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/219109\/","title":{"rendered":"All 12 occupants dead in Missouri plane crash, state highway patrol says | Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUTLER, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Authorities say 12 people were killed when a plane crashed in Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>The Missouri State Highway Patrol said in a statement that troopers were on the scene, assisting the Butler Police Department &amp; Bates County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred near the Butler Memorial Airport. Butler is roughly 65 miles south of Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri Highway Patrol Sgt. Justin Ewing said the plane was taking people up to skydive. Emergency responders got a call that a plane was down and engulfed in fire around 11:30 a.m. Sunday morning, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ewing said other details were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt landed in a field adjacent to the airport, but I think they\u2019re shutting down the roadway just as a precaution,\u201d Ewing said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash will be investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUTLER, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Authorities say 12 people were killed when a plane crashed in Missouri. The Missouri&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30848,119,121,120,95541,35,38,1856,7249,95542,44],"class_list":["post-219109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-accidents","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-butler-missouri-plane-crash-dead","tag-fires","tag-general-news","tag-law-enforcement","tag-plane-crashes","tag-skydiving","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219109","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=219109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}