{"id":274530,"date":"2026-05-01T13:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/274530\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:41:07","slug":"small-plane-crash-near-austin-kills-all-5-aboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/274530\/","title":{"rendered":"Small plane crash near Austin kills all 5 aboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WIMBERLEY, Texas (AP) \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>Becerra said the plane was a Cessna 421C. He said preliminary information indicates it was traveling at a high rate of speed when it crashed at about 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>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>Becerra said the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have been notified and will be leading the crash investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WIMBERLEY, Texas (AP) \u2014 A small plane crashed in Texas, killing all five people aboard, a county official&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[88427,132,23681,59373,59370,59371,59372,101721,82,84,83,27,101720],"class_list":["post-274530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-ap-test","tag-austin","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-product-30109-ap-texas-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-31998-ap-online-national-news","tag-ruben-becerra","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-small-plane-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274530","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=274530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}