{"id":274518,"date":"2026-05-01T13:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/274518\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:32:07","slug":"a-small-plane-has-crashed-in-texas-hill-country-killing-all-5-on-board-county-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/274518\/","title":{"rendered":"A small plane has crashed in Texas Hill Country killing all 5 on board, county official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WIMBERLEY, Texas \u2014 A small plane crashed in Texas, killing all five people aboard, a county official said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened Thursday night in Wimberley, a city about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southwest of Austin, Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration said the Cessna 421C crashed around 11:25 p.m. with five people on board. It said the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Becerra said preliminary information indicates the plane was traveling at a high rate of speed when it crashed. He did not release the names of the victims, pending notification of family.<\/p>\n<p>He said a second aircraft traveling in the area landed safely near San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>Wimberley, with a population of about 3,000, is a popular tourist and hiking destination in the Texas Hill Country next to the Blanco River.<\/p>\n<p>Wimberley Mayor Jim Chiles told The Associated Press he did not have any information about the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WIMBERLEY, Texas \u2014 A small plane crashed in Texas, killing all five people aboard, a county official said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5291,27,29,28,20637,991],"class_list":["post-274518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-ap-a-wire","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-top-ap-news","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274518","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=274518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}