A small plane crashed Thursday night in Wimberley, Texas, killing all five people aboard, local officials said Friday. Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra said in a Facebook post that the crash happened in Wimberley, a Hill Country town about 40 miles, or 64 kilometers, southwest of Austin.
The crash adds another deadly chapter to a string of small-plane accidents that can turn quiet communities into emergency scenes in minutes. Becerra’s post was the public confirmation of the wreck after the plane went down in Hays County, though no additional details on the aircraft or the people aboard were provided in the facts released Friday.
Wimberley is the key to why the crash drew attention so quickly. The town sits close enough to Austin for the impact to register well beyond Hays County, yet far enough away that residents there can still be startled by how suddenly a plane can come down over a rural stretch of Texas.
The unanswered question now is not whether the crash was deadly. It was. What remains unclear from the information made public Friday is who was on board and what led the plane to go down Thursday night in Hays County.
