{"id":329315,"date":"2026-01-04T19:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/small-plane-crash-at-cape-cod-airport-leaves-pilot-dead"},"modified":"2026-01-04T19:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:02:04","slug":"small-plane-crash-at-cape-cod-airport-leaves-pilot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/small-plane-crash-at-cape-cod-airport-leaves-pilot-dead","title":{"rendered":"Small aircraft crash at Cape Cod airport leaves pilot lifeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">A small plane crashed Sunday at the Provincetown Municipal Airport on Cape Cod, catching fire and killing the pilot, who was the only person on board, officials said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Firefighters and other emergency responders extinguished the fire at the crash site near the seaside community at the very tip of the Cape Cod, city officials said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The statement said the pilot was pronounced dead at the crash site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement that the aircraf was a Cessna 172N and that it will investigate the crash. It gave no preliminary indication of a possible cause. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The airport was closed following the crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Provincetown is located about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Boston at the end of Cape Cod, the hooked peninsula jutting into the Atlantic Ocean in southeast Massachusetts. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/small-plane-crash-cape-cod-airport-leaves-pilot-128895804\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small plane crashed Sunday at the Provincetown Municipal Airport on Cape Cod, catching fire and killing the pilot, who was the only person on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7005,5189,7003,7008,7006,1139,6577,7002,7009,7004,7007],"class_list":["post-329315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-atlantic-ocean","tag-boston","tag-cape-cod","tag-cessna","tag-crash-web-site","tag-massachusetts","tag-nationwide-transportation-security-board","tag-provincetown","tag-provincetown-municipal-airport","tag-southeast-massachusetts","tag-the-cape-cod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329317,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329315\/revisions\/329317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}