{"id":1513639,"date":"2026-06-08T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1513639"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:33:23","slug":"two-us-pilots-die-after-plane-crashes-in-the-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1513639","title":{"rendered":"Two US pilots die after plane crashes in the Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) \u2014 A pilot and co-pilot from the United States have died in a fiery plane crash as they attempted an emergency landing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/dominican-republic\">Dominican Republic<\/a>, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred Sunday near the southern coastal town of La Romana, according to a statement by the Dominican Institute of Civil Aviation, which identified the pilot and co-pilot as U.S. citizens. It wasn\u2019t immediately known what caused the crash. No passengers were aboard.<\/p>\n<p>MLB All-Star former catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/yadier-molina-st-louis-cardinals-6f8b1ab80bf21b06f0228a3614c617ac\">Yadier Molina<\/a> said on social media that the plane was bound for Texas to pick him up, along with family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy condolences to the pilots and their family!\u201d he wrote. Molina and his group were headed to Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the plane had departed from Puerto Rico and landed in the Dominican Republic to refuel before heading to Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot and co-pilot reported an emergency shortly after taking off from the Dominican Republic, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) \u2014 A pilot and co-pilot from the United States have died in a fiery plane crash as they attempted an emergency landing in the Dominican Republic, authorities said. The incident occurred Sunday near the southern coastal town of La Romana, according to a statement by the Dominican Institute of Civil &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1513639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two US pilots die after plane crashes in the Dominican Republic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 11:33:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1513639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513641,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513639\/revisions\/1513641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}