{"id":459293,"date":"2026-10-07T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/459293\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:46:08","slug":"single-engine-plane-crashes-in-fort-worth-near-hicks-airfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/459293\/","title":{"rendered":"Single-engine plane crashes in Fort Worth near Hicks Airfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A plane crashed Wednesday morning near a community airstrip in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fort-worth\/?utm_source=paid_marketing&amp;utm_medium=google_dsa&amp;utm_campaign=content_acquisition&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=23423742462&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADjVYgG8jtwyhoRDD9otGL-YL0DaF&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw25fWBhAVEiwAMopNjvfsoihVZFxR-wdDsM8pAJK8Rx1TA9qpSsHZoc8YhT9vUEqfZyXDuxoCXpwQAvD_BwE\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth,<\/a> sending the single-engine aircraft up in flames.<\/p>\n<p>John Wing, manager of Hicks Airfield, confirmed the crash to The Dallas Morning News, but said he could not provide additional information as the pilot&#8217;s family had not yet been notified.<\/p>\n<p>On Facebook, Fort Worth city council member Carlos Flores said emergency crews were investigating on scene, and urged drivers to avoid West Bonds Ranch Road between Willow Springs Road and Saginaw Main.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Pilot Rise flight school in Tarrant County said while none of their students or instructors were involved in the accident, they were praying for everyone involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aviation is a close community,&#8221; the post said. &#8220;Moments like this remind us why safety demands our attention and care on every flight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That rang true for Axel Maldonado, who lives in Saginaw about two to three miles from Hicks Airfield. While Maldonado was watching a plume of black smoke rise, he said a friend reported his flight instructor had witnessed a crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI figured it was either a plane or helicopter,\u201d Maldonado told The News. \u201cAnd then somebody posted a picture of a plane engulfed in flames.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Staff writer Elissa Jorgensen contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plane crashed Wednesday morning near a community airstrip in\u00a0Fort Worth, sending the single-engine aircraft up in flames.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,88643,89217],"class_list":["post-459293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-tp-fort-worth","tag-tp-tarrant-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459293","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=459293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}