{"id":274550,"date":"2026-05-01T13:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/274550\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:58:06","slug":"a-small-plane-has-crashed-in-texas-hill-country-killing-all-5-on-board-county-official-says-national-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/274550\/","title":{"rendered":"A small plane has crashed in Texas Hill Country killing all 5 on board, county official says | National &#038; World News"},"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>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<p>\u200bCOPYRIGHT 2026 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/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":274551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[492,23851,490,3003,702,27,29,28,101720,1499],"class_list":["post-274550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-accidents","tag-aviation-safety","tag-general-news","tag-plane-crashes","tag-social-media","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-small-plane-crash","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274550","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=274550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}