{"id":32823,"date":"2024-09-29T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32823"},"modified":"2024-09-29T04:42:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T09:42:51","slug":"wright-brothers-national-memorials-first-airport-flight-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32823","title":{"rendered":"Wright Brothers National Memorial&#8217;s first airport flight crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">MANTEO, N.C. &#8212;&nbsp;Multiple people died after a single-engine plane crashed Saturday afternoon in a wooded area at Wright Brothers National Memorial\u2019s First Flight Airport, the National Park Service said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The crash occurred at 5 p.m. as, according to eyewitnesses, the airplane was trying to land at the airport, the park service said in a news release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The airplane caught fire after the crash, the park service said. The Kill Devil Hills Fire Department and other local fire departments put out the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The airport is closed until further notice, the park service said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the incident. The Federal Aviation Administration has also been notified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Wright Brothers National Memorial will be closed Sunday, the park service said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/multiple-people-dead-after-plane-crash-wright-brothers-114322471\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANTEO, N.C. &#8212;&nbsp;Multiple people died after a single-engine plane crashed Saturday afternoon in a wooded area at Wright Brothers National Memorial\u2019s First Flight Airport, the National Park Service said. The crash occurred at 5 p.m. as, according to eyewitnesses, the airplane was trying to land at the airport, the park service said in a news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[1486,616],"class_list":["post-32823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-airport","tag-plane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32823","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=32823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32825,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32823\/revisions\/32825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}