{"id":26821,"date":"2025-02-20T00:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T20:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/2-dead-after-small-planes-collide-midair-at-us-airport\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T00:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T20:42:25","slug":"2-dead-after-small-planes-collide-midair-at-us-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/2-dead-after-small-planes-collide-midair-at-us-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead after small planes collide midair at US airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5314232.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Authorities said they were investigating the deadly collision that happened at the Marana Regional Airport, northwest of Tucson, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration said two single-engine planes, a Lancair 360 MK II and a Cessna 172S, collided just before 8:30 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p>It added that the regional airport where the crash happened is an \u201cuncontrolled field\u201d, meaning it does not have an operating air traffic control tower.<\/p>\n<p>Both aircraft had two passengers on board each.<\/p>\n<p>The accident comes weeks after a midair collision between an Army helicopter and a commercial airplane in Washington, in which all 67 passengers aboard both aircraft were killed, making it the deadliest U.S. air crash in almost a quarter century.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/228618\/2-dead-after-small-planes-collide-midair-at-US-airport\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities said they were investigating the deadly collision that happened at the Marana Regional Airport, northwest of Tucson, on Wednesday. The Federal Aviation Administration said two single-engine planes, a Lancair 360 MK II and a Cessna 172S, collided just before 8:30 a.m. local time. It added that the regional airport where the crash happened is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}