{"id":16797,"date":"2023-08-14T04:42:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T09:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=16797"},"modified":"2023-08-14T04:42:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T09:42:14","slug":"2-die-in-north-carolina-plane-crash-that-cut-power-to-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=16797","title":{"rendered":"2 die in North Carolina plane crash that cut power to thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Two people aboard a small plane died after it crashed into a North Carolina lake Sunday morning, hitting a power line on the way down and cutting electricity to thousands, according to a local official.<br>The Federal Aviation Authority is investigating the cause of the crash, which took place about 11:30 a.m., a spokesperson for the city of Hickory told CNN.<br>More than 17,000 Duke Energy customers were without electricity in Catawba County as of 12:40 p.m., according to\u00a0PowerOutage.us. Power was restored to most customers early Sunday evening.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/13\/us\/lake-hickory-plane-crash-power-cut\/index.html\">cnn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people aboard a small plane died after it crashed into a North Carolina lake Sunday morning, hitting a power line on the way down and cutting electricity to thousands, according to a local official.The Federal Aviation Authority is investigating the cause of the crash, which took place about 11:30 a.m., a spokesperson for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[6085,21589],"class_list":["post-16797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-plane-crash","tag-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16799,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16797\/revisions\/16799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}