{"id":252950,"date":"2026-07-27T15:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252950\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:04:19","slug":"erie-man-killed-in-small-plane-crash-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252950\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie man killed in small plane crash in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family members told KTIV-TV the pilot was leaving Oshkosh, Wisconsin after an aviation event on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>ERIE, Colo. \u2014 A Colorado man was killed when the small plane he was piloting went down in a body of water in Iowa, family members said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane, a Zenith CH-64, crashed around 7:30 p.m. Friday near Sioux City, Iowa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Family members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktiv.com\/2026\/07\/26\/crews-respond-possible-missing-aircraft-crash-northwest-iowa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told KTIV-TV<\/a> the pilot, 64-year-old Dennis Elkins, was leaving Oshkosh, Wisconsin after an aviation event on Thursday. When his family didn&#8217;t hear from him, they initiated a search, KTIV reports. A friend pinged the plane&#8217;s last known location and called authorities in Iowa, where investigators eventually found the plane in a body of water at a home near Lawton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elkins&#8217; family believes the plane, which Elkins built himself, may have gone down Thursday, KTIV reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e3f19afa-e322-4f2f-ae8b-181f887d9907_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family members told KTIV-TV the pilot was leaving Oshkosh, Wisconsin after an aviation event on Thursday. ERIE, Colo.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-252950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252950","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=252950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}