{"id":339489,"date":"2026-06-17T06:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/339489\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T06:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:20:08","slug":"small-plane-crashes-on-texas-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/339489\/","title":{"rendered":"Small plane crashes on Texas highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">LAREDO, Texas (AP) \u2014 A business jet crashed on a highway in Laredo, Texas, and caught fire Tuesday night, killing one person and causing chaos as people left their vehicles to frantically try to smash the cockpit window and free those inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">The plane had six people onboard when it crashed on the Loop 20 highway shortly after 10 p.m., said Jose Baeza, an investigator with the Laredo Police Department. It was unclear if the person who died was on the plane or the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">No injuries on the ground were immediately reported, though five officers were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">The plane was a Cessna Citation Latitude twin jet, according to information from FligthAware, an aviation tracking and data company. It departed from Los Cabos International Airport in Mexico at 6:19 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">It\u2019s not clear what caused the crash as it reached Laredo, about 140 miles (225 kilometers) southwest of San Antonio. Video posted to social media showed the plane on its side, smashed into a highway barrier. The tail was ripped from the fuselage,<\/p>\n<p>Get Starting Point<\/p>\n<p>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">Zayra Garza, an esthetician, was driving her coworkers home when she came upon the crash. She began shooting video as she approached the scene and then stopped her vehicle across from the crippled jet, which was on fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">She saw someone inside the plane trying to break the cockpit window to escape. Soon, people got out of their vehicles to try to smash the window from the outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">Garza\u2019s husband jumped out of their vehicle to help and Garza then saw the door of the plane open. She said three people who looked to be teenagers rushed out, followed by someone who appeared to be a pilot. Another member of the crew tried to pull out a person who seemed to be unconscious .<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">\u201cIt looked like part of a movie. I was in shock,\u201d Garza said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">\u201cWhat was worrying me was the fire,\u201d she said. \u201cI was concerned that it could have just exploded at any time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">NetJets said in a statement that the crash involved one of its aircraft and it is working with authorities. NetJets is owned by Warren Buffett\u2019s Berkshire Hathaway and allows people to buy part ownership in private jets.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-DSMD5E7EBUVRZ4VRIYBYQMCQ3E-image\" alt=\"A passenger, top, jumps out of a plane after it crashed on a highway as other people help, on June 16, 2026, in Laredo, Texas.\" class=\"height_a width_full invisible width_full--mobile width_full--tablet-only\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSMD5E7EBUVRZ4VRIYBYQMCQ3E.jpg\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/>A passenger, top, jumps out of a plane after it crashed on a highway as other people help, on June 16, 2026, in Laredo, Texas.Zayra Garza\/Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAREDO, Texas (AP) \u2014 A business jet crashed on a highway in Laredo, Texas, and caught fire Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[490,3003,27,29,28,1499],"class_list":["post-339489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-general-news","tag-plane-crashes","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339489","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=339489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}