{"id":25517,"date":"2024-09-29T17:20:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T23:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/small-plane-crash-lands-at-cortez-municipal-airport\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:18:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:18:54","slug":"small-plane-crash-lands-at-cortez-municipal-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/small-plane-crash-lands-at-cortez-municipal-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Small plane crash-lands at Cortez Municipal Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=192b808a-c004-553f-8e12-90d597360ae3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A single-engine plane crash-landed at Cortez Municipal Airport about 4:15 p.m. Sunday, causing a small fire and damage to its wing, according to reports from the Cortez Fire Protection District.<\/p>\n<p>A battalion engine and truck responded to the crash and crews reported that it had closed the runway about 4:24 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot was uninjured and out of the plane when fire crew arrived, and the plane carried no passengers, according to Montezuma County Sheriff Steven Nowlin.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the pilot and the make of the plane was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nowlin, the plane\u2019s landing gear failed.<\/p>\n<p>The fire reportedly was extinguished at 4:27 p.m., the fire department said.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration had begun preliminary work on an investigation, after making contact with law officials on the scene about 4:45 p.m., according to chatter on emergency radio channels.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-4f6c6e3fe534cc8f39382dce17890666\">This article will be updated when additional information becomes available.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>no passengers, and the pilot wasn\u2019t injured <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-25517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78972,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25517\/revisions\/78972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25517"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=25517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}