{"id":340103,"date":"2026-06-17T18:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340103\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:02:17","slug":"officials-provide-updates-on-texas-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340103\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials Provide Updates on Texas Plane Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Texas Plane Crash<br \/>\n                          Authorities Update Public on Deadly Crash &#8230;<br \/>\n                          Break Down Federal, Local Cooperation<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              June 17, 2026<br \/>\n                            8:55 AM PDT<br \/>\n                                                                      |<br \/>\n                                                                Updated<br \/>\n                                  June 17, 2026<br \/>\n                                10:05 AM PDT\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6e93969d670a49c0a050f9fd69d04a88_md.png\" alt=\"061726 laredo police presser kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Texas officials say they&#8217;re still gathering facts about Tuesday night&#8217;s private jet crash, which resulted in one person&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Several officials and representatives of the Laredo Police Department providing updates Wednesday morning on the joint investigation between LPD and federal agencies.<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6e1ef88e414f4ef99bfc39ac62bc0a29_md.png\" alt=\"061726_texas_plane_crash_rescue_kal_v2\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Authorities made it clear the family of the deceased does not want their name out there &#8230; and they did not release it during the conference.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As we reported &#8230; motorists rescued five passengers from the fiery wreck on a highway in Laredo, Texas, Tuesday night &#8230; hopping out of their cars and rushing to the scene of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The Good Samaritans\u00a0used a sledgehammer and a shovel to smash open the cockpit window to remove the crew and passengers.<\/p>\n<p>      WATCH: Moment plane crashes onto highway in Laredo, Texas, killing one onboard.<\/p>\n<p>Five others onboard were injured, in addition to five police officers who were transported to the hospital for smoke inhalation. <\/p>\n<p>The plane also struck a vehicle. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KsLOzPWfyF\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/KsLOzPWfyF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pFuovyvAYV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/pFuovyvAYV<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newsnoteworthy\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@newsnoteworthy<\/a>\n          <\/p>\n<p>Officials previously said the twin-jet Cessna was flying from Los Cabos International Airport in Mexico to Austin, Texas, when the plane reportedly suffered a mechanical failure.<\/p>\n<p>One person was killed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/17\/plane-crash-on-highway-in-texas-on-video\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the crash<\/a> &#8230; and one angle shared online showed the jet quickly dip out of the sky and onto the highway, where it slammed down.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Plane Crash Authorities Update Public on Deadly Crash &#8230; Break Down Federal, Local Cooperation Published June 17,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-340103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340103","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=340103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}