{"id":38746,"date":"2025-02-20T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38746"},"modified":"2025-02-20T02:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T08:56:07","slug":"2-dead-after-small-planes-collide-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38746","title":{"rendered":"2 dead after small planes collide in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Two people were confirmed dead after two small planes collided midair at Marana Regional Airport in Arizona on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There were two people onboard each aircraft, a Lancair and a Cessna, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The aircrafts collided while upwind of runway 12, according to preliminary information from the National Transportation Safety Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;The Cessna landed uneventfully; the Lancair impacted terrain near runway 3 and a post-impact fire ensued,&#8221; according to the NTSB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The planes collided around 8:30 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The FAA and NTSB will investigate, and NTSB investigators are on their way to the scene with two more on the way, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Marana Regional Airport is an uncontrolled field &#8212; it does not have an operating ATC control tower. Pilots utilize a Common Traffic Advisory Frequency to announce their position to other aircrafts. The pilot in command is responsible for maintaining a safe distance from other aircrafts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/2-dead-after-small-planes-collide-arizona\/story?id=118975822\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were confirmed dead after two small planes collided midair at Marana Regional Airport in Arizona on Wednesday. There were two people onboard each aircraft, a Lancair and a Cessna, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The aircrafts collided while upwind of runway 12, according to preliminary information from the National Transportation Safety Board. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[20924,2210,1186],"class_list":["post-38746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-after","tag-dead","tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38746","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=38746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38748,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38746\/revisions\/38748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}