A pilot is hospitalized in stable condition after his single-engine general aviation aircraft made an abrupt landing Friday morning in an undeveloped construction lot just east of Aero Country Airport in McKinney, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The landing occurred shortly after 9:15 a.m. in the 1700 block of El Cielo Street and Baron Way, according to the McKinney Fire Department.<\/p>\n
Transported to trauma center<\/p>\n
The pilot, who was the sole occupant, was transported by ambulance to Baylor Scott & White Medical Center \u2013 McKinney, a Level II trauma center.<\/p>\n
The Van’s RV-8 kit aircraft is registered to Michael A. Margiotta of Alexandria, Virginia, according to FAA records.<\/p>\n
No other injuries were reported, and no homes were damaged.<\/p>\n
Responders secure scene with FAA<\/p>\n
Emergency responders collaborated with police and federal aviation officials to cordon off the site and assess any potential risks to nearby homes and residents.<\/p>\n
Investigation into cause underway<\/p>\n
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pilot is hospitalized in stable condition after his single-engine general aviation aircraft made an abrupt landing Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8442,1247,430,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-8981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-emergency-landing","9":"tag-mckinney","10":"tag-north-texas","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981","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=8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}