Five people have died in a plane crash in the Texas Hill Country, outside of Wimberley, late Thursday night. <\/p>\n
In a 6:55 a.m. Friday post on Facebook<\/a>, Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra said first responders were called to the scene of the crash at around 11:05 p.m. and later identified the aircraft as a Cessna 421C, which generally has a seating capacity for six passengers<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Preliminary information indicates the aircraft was traveling at a high rate of speed at the time of impact,” the county judge said. In an interview, Becerra said the plane crashed on the edge of a neighborhood near Round Rock Road \u2014\u00a0about a 10-minute drive northwest of Wimberley.<\/p>\n Mike Jones, director of the Hays County Office of Emergency Services, said the plane took off from New Braunfels and was traveling to Amarillo.<\/p>\n Becerra said that, while there was a second aircraft traveling in the area at the time of the crash, officials do not believe there was a mid-air collision. The county judge said the second plane landed safely in New Braunfels.<\/p>\n The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will be leading the investigation into the cause of the crash, Becerra said in his Facebook post.<\/p>\n He said identities of the victims would not be released until family can be notified.<\/p>\n Wimberley, a vacation destination near popular swimming spots Blue Hole Regional Park and Jacob’s Well, is located about 30 miles southwest of Austin.<\/p>\n This is a developing story.<\/p>\n KUT’s Leigh Walden contributed reporting to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people have died in a plane crash in the Texas Hill Country, outside of Wimberley, late Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17773,119,27,29,2165,28,101732,101731],"class_list":["post-274563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-cessna","tag-plane-crash","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-hill-country","tag-texas-news","tag-wimberley-texas","tag-wimberley-tx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274563","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=274563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}