{"id":248473,"date":"2026-04-14T01:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248473\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T01:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:57:11","slug":"small-plane-crashes-forcing-shut-down-of-westbound-highway-44-near-the-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248473\/","title":{"rendered":"Small plane crashes, forcing shut down of westbound Highway 44 near the airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crash landing has forced part of Highway 44 to shut down near the Corpus Christi International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The plane crashed along westbound Highway 44 near Clarkwood Road just before 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to Senior Officer Tony Contreras with the Corpus Christi Police Department&#8217;s Public Information Office, a small single engine plane crashed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not known how many people were on the plane or their conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are being asked to avoid the area if possible and find an alternate route.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. We&#8217;ll have more updates as soon as information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crash landing has forced part of Highway 44 to shut down near the Corpus Christi International Airport.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[94415,155,157,156,27599,119],"class_list":{"0":"post-248473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-cc-international-airport","9":"tag-corpus-christi","10":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","11":"tag-corpus-christi-news","12":"tag-highway-44","13":"tag-plane-crash"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248473","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=248473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}