{"id":8995,"date":"2025-10-17T21:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8995\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:18:07","slug":"pilot-hospitalized-after-small-plane-crashes-in-mckinney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8995\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot hospitalized after small plane crashes in McKinney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">MCKINNEY, Texas &#8211; A pilot was hospitalized after a small plane crashed in an empty construction lot in McKinney Friday afternoon, according to police.<\/p>\n<p> McKinney Plane Crash   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Officers responded to the scene of the crash, just east of Aero Country Airport in a construction lot intended for new homes. The pilot was transported by ambulance to a nearby hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Texas Department of Public Safety (TxDPS) is leading the investigation, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been notified. No further details about the incident have been released.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">It is unclear what caused the small plane crash. Authorities have not released the identity of the pilot or their current condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from McKinney police.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/collin-county\/mckinney\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McKinney<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MCKINNEY, Texas &#8211; A pilot was hospitalized after a small plane crashed in an empty construction lot in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[960,1247,223,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-8995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-collin-county","9":"tag-mckinney","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995","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=8995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}