{"id":724497,"date":"2026-06-25T05:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724497\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T05:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:02:15","slug":"plane-crash-in-tattnall-county-leaves-lyons-man-dead-faa-ntsb-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724497\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane crash in Tattnall County leaves Lyons man dead; FAA, NTSB investigating"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plane crash in Tattnall County leaves Lyons man dead; FAA, NTSB investigating<\/p>\n

\"Shannon<\/a>TATTNALL COUNTY, Ga. \u2014<\/p>\n

A man from Lyons was killed in a plane crash Wednesday evening in Tattnall County, according to local officials.<\/p>\n

The Tattnall County Sheriff\u2019s Office said Tattnall County 911 received a report of an airplane crash at about 5:59 p.m. on Highway 144 west of Glennville in the Tison Community.<\/p>\n

A witness confirmed to WJCL 22 that the plane crashed by a pond on Watermelon Creek Church Road.<\/p>\n

Tattnall County Fire Rescue, Tattnall County EMS, Tattnall County EMA, the Tattnall County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Glennville Fire Department responded to the scene.<\/p>\n

Tattnall County Coroner Herb Brown previously confirmed there was one fatality and said only one person was on the plane.<\/p>\n

Officials have now identified the victim as Tony Zorn of Lyons. His next of kin has been notified.<\/p>\n

The investigation has been turned over to the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.<\/p>\n

No additional information was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plane crash in Tattnall County leaves Lyons man dead; FAA, NTSB investigating TATTNALL COUNTY, Ga. \u2014 A man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,291374,295996,35845,451,311557,3,152771,25283,3778,291372,311562,311558,311559,311560,311563,311561,452,453,291375,291373,273932],"class_list":["post-724497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-demand-menu-subscribe","tag-email-weather-search","tag-fatality","tag-headlines","tag-highway-144-west-of-glennville","tag-news","tag-nowcast","tag-page","tag-plane-crash","tag-privacy-notice-term","tag-tattnall-county","tag-tattnall-county-coroner-herb-brown","tag-tattnall-county-ema","tag-tattnall-county-fire-rescue","tag-tattnall-county-sheriffs-offiice","tag-tison-community","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-use-nextfre","tag-weekday-news-watch","tag-wjcl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724497","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=724497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}