A small plane crashed on a highway in Laredo, Texas, and caught fire Tuesday night, causing chaos as people left their vehicles to frantically try to smash the cockpit window and free people inside.<\/p>\n
Police say six people were onboard and one was killed. The plane crashed in Laredo shortly after 10 p.m., said Jose Baeza, an investigator with the Laredo Police Department.<\/p>\n
There were no immediate reports of any injuries to those in vehicles on the highway, Loop 20, he said. The Loop has been closed in both directions.<\/p>\n
A passenger jumps out of a plane after it crashed on a highway as other people help in Laredo, Texas, June 16, 2026. AP<\/p>\n
People attempt to pull passengers out of the plane after it crashed on a highway. AP<\/p>\n
Video posted online shows the plane on its side, crashed into a highway barrier.<\/p>\n
Zayra Garza, an esthetician, was driving her coworkers home when she came upon the plane crash.<\/p>\n
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
She saw someone inside the plane trying to break the cockpit window to escape.<\/p>\n
Police say six people were onboard and one was killed. AP<\/p>\n
Soon, people got out of their vehicles to try to smash the window from the outside.<\/p>\n
Garza\u2019s husband jumped out of their vehicle to help and Garza then saw the door of the plane open.<\/p>\n
She said three people who looked to be teenagers rushed out, followed by someone who appeared to be a pilot.<\/p>\n
Another member of the crew tried to pull from the plane a person who seemed to be unconscious .<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looked like part of a movie. I was in shock,\u201d Garza said.<\/p>\n
\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small plane crashed on a highway in Laredo, Texas, and caught fire Tuesday night, causing chaos as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10912,3002,3003,27,29,28,734],"class_list":["post-339553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-deaths","tag-fires","tag-plane-crashes","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\/339553","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=339553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}