{"id":617390,"date":"2026-05-01T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/617390\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:36:08","slug":"a-small-plane-has-crashed-near-austin-killing-all-5-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/617390\/","title":{"rendered":"A small plane has crashed near Austin killing all 5 on board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WIMBERLEY, Texas (AP) \u2014 A small plane crashed in Texas, killing all five people aboard, a county official said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened Thursday night in Wimberley, a city about 40 miles southwest of Austin, Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>Becerra said the plane was a Cessna 421C. He said preliminary information indicates it was traveling at a high rate of speed when it crashed at about 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>He did not release the names of the victims, pending notification of family.<\/p>\n<p>He said a second aircraft traveling in the area landed safely near San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>Becerra said the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have been notified and will be leading the crash investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WIMBERLEY, Texas (AP) \u2014 A small plane crashed in Texas, killing all five people aboard, a county official&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6324,2722,2724,6778,267818,4,450,451,3,4752,1022,452,453],"class_list":["post-617390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-austin","tag-austin-what-you-need-to-know","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-public-safety","tag-texas","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617390","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=617390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}