{"id":250278,"date":"2026-04-15T02:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/250278\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T02:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:50:08","slug":"two-critically-injured-after-training-plane-crash-sparks-fire-near-corpus-christi-airport-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/250278\/","title":{"rendered":"Two critically injured after training plane crash sparks fire near Corpus Christi airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Two people were hospitalized in critical condition after a small plane crashed near the Corpus Christi International Airport on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Corpus Christi first responders were called around 7:20 p.m. to a reported airplane crash on Highway 44 Frontage Road. <\/p>\n<p>Crews arrived to find a small aircraft down on the frontage road that was on fire, according to the Corpus Christi Fire Department. <\/p>\n<p>Splendid Aviation, a flight school, said an instructor and student were onboard one of their training aircrafts when they came into contact with some power lines, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/splendidaviation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The two occupants of the plane were rushed to a local hospital in critical condition. They were later transferred to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. <\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asias.faa.gov\/apex\/f?p=100:95:::NO::P95_EVENT_LCL_DATE,P95_LOC_CITY_NAME,P95_REGIST_NBR:13-APR-26,CORPUS%20CHRISTI,N317HM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">incident report<\/a>, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said a Piper PA-28 crashed under unknown circumstances during approach phase. <\/p>\n<p>The flight school says they are fully cooperating with the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) as they investigate the circumstances of the crash. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The Corpus Christi International Airport (CCIA), Annaville Fire Department, Corpus Christi Police Department, and Nueces County Sheriffs Office also responded. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Two people were hospitalized in critical condition after a small plane crashed near the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-250278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250278","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=250278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}