{"id":296523,"date":"2026-05-16T22:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296523\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:54:13","slug":"aircraft-crashes-texas-emergency-landing-injures-three-one-critically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296523\/","title":{"rendered":"aircraft crashes Texas emergency landing, injures three, one critically"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three off-duty Dallas police officers were injured \u2014 one critically \u2014 when their single-engine, private plane made an emergency landing and crashed into a Forney, Texas field early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

The Dallas Police Association confirmed via Facebook the officers were returning home from a \u201cpersonal trip.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOur immediate focus is ensuring these officers and their families receive the support and care they need during this difficult time,\u201d wrote the Dallas Police Association on Facebook.<\/p>\n

\"PoliceThree off-duty Dallas police officers were injured in a plane crash early Saturday morning. Matt Gush \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

\u201cWe ask the community to join us in praying for strength, healing, and a full recovery for everyone involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Highway Patrol officers \u201cresponded around 12:20 a.m. to reports of a single-engine plane crash in a remote part of Kaufman County,\u201d <\/a> according to the Forney Police Department<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cThree occupants were aboard the aircraft. Two occupants were transported to a local hospital for treatment, while the third occupant was treated and released at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FAA and the Texas Department of Public Safety are investigating the incident. <\/p>\n

The incident in Forney is one of many small plane crashes over the last week. <\/p>\n

This past Thursday<\/a>, a single-engine plane slammed into an Akron, Ohio home, with a family of four inside. The couple miraculously escaped, according to local authorities \u2014 the same day a medical plane slammed into the ground near Ruidoso, New Mexico, causing a massive fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"AForney, Texas Getty Images<\/p>\n

A separate crash involving a single-engine plane <\/a>killed the aviation-inclined son of former Mississippi governor Kirk Fordice, Dan Fordice, Tuesday at the Tallulah-Vicksburg Regional Airport.<\/p>\n

Also on Tuesday, a twin-engine plane<\/a> carrying 11 passengers and the pilot crashed in the Atlantic Ocean roughly 80 miles off the Florida coast. <\/p>\n

The survivors spent five hours<\/a> in a life raft before being hoisted to safety by a U.S. Air Force 920th Rescue Wing helicopter crew.<\/p>\n

General Aviation \u2014 aviation involving small, private aircraft \u2014 accounts for roughly 90% of aircraft in the U.S. <\/p>\n

The FAA reports about 363 General Aviation fatalities <\/a>are recorded every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three off-duty Dallas police officers were injured \u2014 one critically \u2014 when their single-engine, private plane made an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[108001,3003,2927,27,29,28,734],"class_list":["post-296523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-plane-accident","tag-plane-crashes","tag-police-officers","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296523","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=296523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}