{"id":43248,"date":"2025-06-09T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43248"},"modified":"2025-06-09T02:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T07:31:04","slug":"multiple-people-injured-as-small-plane-crashes-in-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43248","title":{"rendered":"Multiple people injured as small plane crashes in Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"anchor-b25bd4\">Multiple people were injured when a small plane carrying 20 people crashed in Tullahoma, Tennessee, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"anchor-700b40\">No one died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"anchor-da28eb\">Six people were taken to hospitals for injuries that couldn&#8217;t be tended to at the scene, said Lyle Russell, a spokesperson for the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"anchor-ca8425\">Two of them were taken by medical helicopter and four by ambulance, Russell said. After they arrived, doctors determined someone who had been taken by ground needed care at a different facility, so that person was then helicoptered to a new location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"anchor-099069\">Russell said the conditions of those people are unknown, and said he believes the injured were taken to Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"anchor-520ee2\">A spokesperson for Vanderbilt University Hospital said it had admitted<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>three patients \u2014 one in critical condition and two stable. The spokesperson did not specify their injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"anchor-9afd58\">First responders treated other minor injuries at the scene, Russell added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"anchor-7ecca2\">The plane, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, crashed around 12:45 p.m. just after it took off from the Tullahoma Regional Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which is investigating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"anchor-8b2f86\">The plane went down on Old Shelbyville Road, according to the FAA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"anchor-39b1f9\">Russell said it was a skydiving plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"anchor-f0d163\">The National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement that it is investigating.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/multiple-people-injured-small-plane-crash-tennessee-rcna211727\">nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple people were injured when a small plane carrying 20 people crashed in Tullahoma, Tennessee, authorities said. No one died. Six people were taken to hospitals for injuries that couldn&#8217;t be tended to at the scene, said Lyle Russell, a spokesperson for the city. Two of them were taken by medical helicopter and four by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":43249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[24334,1237,8212],"class_list":["post-43248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-las","tag-police","tag-vegas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43248","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43250,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43248\/revisions\/43250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}