{"id":66863,"date":"2019-08-07T22:25:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T04:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/single-engine-antique-plane-crashes-southwest-of-mancos\/"},"modified":"2019-08-08T04:25:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T04:25:33","slug":"single-engine-antique-plane-crashes-southwest-of-mancos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/single-engine-antique-plane-crashes-southwest-of-mancos\/","title":{"rendered":"Single-engine antique plane crashes southwest of Mancos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e21baf47-6ec0-4ae3-9731-e497276ca8cc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"831\" height=\"467\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A pilot and a passenger survived a plane crash Wednesday night southwest of Mancos.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was reported about 8 p.m. in a remote area south of County Road J and west of County Road 41, said Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot and the passenger were taken by ground to a hospital. Both suffered injuries but are expected to survive, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He declined to identify the crash victims other than to say they are residents of Montezuma County.<\/p>\n<p>He described the plane as a single-engine antique airplane.<\/p>\n<p>The plane took off from an airstrip south of the crash site and was returning when the crash occurred, Nowlin said.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration was notified. The pilot was apparently able to describe the crash, but Nowlin preferred those details come from the FAA.<\/p>\n<p>He said the crash site \u201cdidn\u2019t look too bad,\u201d but was \u201cmore than a hard landing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad they\u2019re alive,\u201d Nowlin said. \u201cThey\u2019re lucky; really lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>passenger suffer injuries, expected to recover<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[874,13,28,83,60,29,4259],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-66863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-air-and-space-crash","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-mancos","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-newsletter-sign-up"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66863","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=66863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66863"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=66863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}