{"id":104589,"date":"2024-03-05T12:01:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T12:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/five-dead-after-single-engine-plane-crashes-near-i-40-in-nashville-police-say\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T12:01:11","slug":"five-dead-after-single-engine-plane-crashes-near-i-40-in-nashville-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/five-dead-after-single-engine-plane-crashes-near-i-40-in-nashville-police-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Five dead after single-engine plane crashes near I-40 in Nashville, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-05\/GETTY_51722_FiretruckNight%20%282%29.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Perry Gerenday\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) &#8212; Five people have died after a single-engine plane crashed as it attempted to make an emergency landing in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday night, law enforcement said.<\/p>\n<p>The control tower at Nashville&#8217;s John Tune airport received a message at about 7:40 p.m. from a pilot, who said their aircraft was experiencing engine and power failure and needed permission to land, Don Aaron, public affairs director for the Nashville Metropolitan Police, said at a press conference Monday night. The tower granted permission.<\/p>\n<p>As the plane continued toward the airport, the pilot contacted the tower again to say the aircraft was not going to make it, Aaron said.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told police the plane was in distress as it came over the interstate, the official said. The plane crashed behind a Costco just off the Eastbound lanes of Interstate 40, he said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Nashville Fire Department said the plane imploded on impact. The &#8220;impact was catastrophic and did not leave any survivors,&#8221; the fire department rep said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire department was met with heavy flames as they reached the scene, but they were able to extinguish it and preserve evidence from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration arrived at the scene, the Metro Nashville Police Department said. Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board were en route to investigate the incident, Aaron said.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials are working with federal authorities to determine where the plane originated from. Authorities also do not yet know who was onboard.<\/p>\n<p>The interstate was shut down following the incident an the investigation into the crash is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perry Gerenday\/Getty Images (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) &#8212; Five people have died after a single-engine plane crashed as it attempted to make an emergency landing in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday night, law enforcement said. The control tower at Nashville&#8217;s John Tune airport received a message at about 7:40 p.m. from a pilot,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/five-dead-after-single-engine-plane-crashes-near-i-40-in-nashville-police-say\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}