{"id":15868,"date":"2025-10-22T15:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/15868\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:36:21","slug":"3-houston-area-residents-killed-in-small-plane-crash-in-louisiana-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/15868\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Houston-area residents killed in small plane crash in Louisiana \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/?attachment_id=533959\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-533959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25171653413759-1000x667.jpg\" alt=\"National Transportation Safety Board\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Jose Luis Magana, File<\/p>\n<p>FILE \u2013 The seal of the National Transportation Safety Board is seen before a news conference at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Jan. 31, 2025, in Arlington, Va.<\/p>\n<p>Three people from the Houston area died Tuesday when the small airplane they were flying in crashed in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Ramsey, 42, and Bruce Verduyn, 58, both of The Woodlands, and Spring resident Lydia Laws, 46, were killed in the crash, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lafayettesheriff\/posts\/pfbid02wazp9442JoGrtA64BxBPYQkMvhn4e3YGTtZgJpJMBjudUxgcs4ghBNmEVqtHUjagl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lafayette Parish Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a>. No one else was aboard the twin-engine Beechcraft Baron.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office wrote in a news release that shortly after 11 a.m. Tuesday, it received reports of the plane &#8220;losing altitude, circling, and then crashing into an open field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/local\/2025\/09\/28\/532086\/2-killed-in-fiery-plane-crash-north-of-houston\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2 killed in fiery plane crash north of Houston<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is leading an investigation into the crash, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office, which deferred to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for additional information and comment. The NTSB did not immediately respond to inquiries from Houston Public Media on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Photo\/Jose Luis Magana, File FILE \u2013 The seal of the National Transportation Safety Board is seen before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[504,56,12792,58,57,12793,865,66,505,223,119,12794,840],"class_list":["post-15868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-federal-aviation-administration","tag-houston","tag-houston-area-residents","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-lafayette-parish-sheriffs-office","tag-law-enforcement","tag-local","tag-national-transportation-safety-board","tag-news","tag-plane-crash","tag-small-plane-crash","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}