{"id":274790,"date":"2026-05-01T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/274790\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:29:10","slug":"wimberley-texas-plane-crash-kills-5-hays-county-judge-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/274790\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimberley, Texas plane crash kills 5, Hays County Judge says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All five people onboard a plane died in a Thursday crash in the Texas Hill Country town of Wimberley, Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/18aKmAQhLh\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">said on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities wouldn&#8217;t be publicly identifying victims yet, Becerra said Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Preliminary information indicates the aircraft was traveling at a high rate of speed at the time of impact,&#8221; Becerra said in the post. &#8220;Based on current findings, there is no indication of a mid-air collision. A second aircraft traveling in the vicinity landed safely in New\u00a0Braunfels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash, the FAA and Becerra said.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration said the crash occurred around 11:25 p.m. Thursday, while Becerra posted that emergency responders were dispatched around 11:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All five people onboard a plane died in a Thursday crash in the Texas Hill Country town of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-274790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274790","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=274790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}