{"id":327378,"date":"2026-06-08T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/327378\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:02:09","slug":"private-jet-crashes-on-runway-during-emergency-landing-at-dominican-republic-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/327378\/","title":{"rendered":"Private jet crashes on runway during emergency landing at Dominican Republic airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:The Independent US;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"The Independent US\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"271\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2022-12\/ae90c5b0-7c98-11ed-befe-1be805a50c91.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Mon, June 8, 2026 at 9:51 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"651\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_the_independent_us_877\/f984c3daaf4f383ce0849ecf11b39d0b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Private jet crashes on runway during emergency landing at Dominican Republic airport<\/p>\n<p>A private jet crashed on a runway during an emergency landing at an airport in the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Dominican Republic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/dominican-republic\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Dominican Republic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Footage shows the Gulfstream G200 attempting to touch down at La Romana International Airport, <a data-ylk=\"slk:Dominican Republic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/dominican-republic\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Dominican Republic<\/a> on Sunday (7 June). It then erupted into a fireball, before huge plumes of black smoke started rising into the sky.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot and co-pilot were killed in the crash, the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute said. Nobody else was on board.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The aircraft declared an emergency while approximately 16 nautical miles southwest of La Romana&#8221; and crashed as it was returning to the airport, the statement added. It was en route to Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mon, June 8, 2026 at 9:51 AM UTC Private jet crashes on runway during emergency landing at Dominican&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,116981,116980,8442,116983,116979,116982,116984],"class_list":["post-327378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-dominican-civil-aviation-institute","tag-dominican-republic","tag-emergency-landing","tag-gulfstream-g200","tag-la-romana-international-airport","tag-private-jet","tag-runway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327378","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=327378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}