{"id":28486,"date":"2024-06-16T03:57:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T08:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=28486"},"modified":"2024-06-16T03:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T08:57:53","slug":"2-killed-after-world-war-ii-era-plane-crashes-near-california-airport-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=28486","title":{"rendered":"2 killed after World War II-era plane crashes near California airport: Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Two people who were aboard a World War II historical plane were killed Saturday when the aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Chino Airport in Southern California, firefighters said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The private Lockheed L12 aircraft was off the runway approximately 200 yards away in a grass field, when firefighters arrived around 12:35 p.m., Bryan Turner, the battalion chief with Chino Valley Fire District, told ABC News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The identities of the deceased passengers weren&#8217;t immediately revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Turner said it&#8217;s too early to tell why the plane crashed, but there was fire involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating the crash, both agencies said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/2-killed-after-world-war-ii-era-crashes\/story?id=111157876\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people who were aboard a World War II historical plane were killed Saturday when the aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Chino Airport in Southern California, firefighters said. The private Lockheed L12 aircraft was off the runway approximately 200 yards away in a grass field, when firefighters arrived around 12:35 p.m., Bryan Turner, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[8513,29070],"class_list":["post-28486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-2-dead","tag-wwii-plane-crashes-near-california-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28486","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28488,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28486\/revisions\/28488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}