{"id":8423,"date":"2025-10-19T23:07:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/8423\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T23:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:07:42","slug":"small-plane-crashes-at-northern-colorado-airport-erie-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/8423\/","title":{"rendered":"Small plane crashes at northern Colorado airport, Erie police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating after a small plane crashed Sunday afternoon near the runway at the Erie Municipal Airport in Weld County, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ErieCOPolice\/status\/1980031127944679631\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Erie Police Department first posted<\/a> about the single-plane crash at 3:59 p.m. Sunday. Department spokesperson Amber Luttrell said the crash happened about 15 minutes before that.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were on board the plane, Luttrell said. The extent of their injuries was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information about the crash, including the cause and the plane\u2019s flight information, was not immediately available Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash, Luttrell said.<\/p>\n<p>Neither agency immediately responded to requests for comment on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.denverpost.com\/dp\/preference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after a small plane crashed Sunday afternoon near the runway at the Erie Municipal Airport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1676,7250,347,7251,202,136,138,7247,137,7248,1677,241,139,7249,2155,1680],"class_list":["post-8423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-news","tag-crash","tag-crashes-and-disasters","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-municipal-airport","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-police-department","tag-front-range","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-plane-crashes","tag-transportation","tag-weld-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423","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=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}