{"id":575007,"date":"2026-04-10T01:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575007\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T01:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:41:13","slug":"2-killed-after-small-plane-crashes-in-remote-area-of-catalina-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575007\/","title":{"rendered":"2 killed after small plane crashes in remote area of Catalina Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CATALINA ISLAND, Calif.  (KABC) &#8212; Two people were killed when a small plane they were aboard crashed on Catalina Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Airplane Factory Sling crashed near Divide Road in a remote area southwest of Avalon around 12:30 p.m. Thursday, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The two people on the plane were pronounced dead at the scene by first responders, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;This is a tragedy and my heart goes out to the loved ones of those who lost their lives,&#8221; Hahn said in a statement. &#8220;I am grateful to our paramedics and Sheriff&#8217;s deputies who quickly reached this remote area and are handling this incident with professionalism and care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA will investigate the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Roads and hiking trails, including Garden to Sky trail, were temporarily closed while the crash is under investigation, the Catalina Island Conservancy said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">No other details were released.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CATALINA ISLAND, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Two people were killed when a small plane they were aboard crashed on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[252895,23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-575007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-252895","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}