{"id":325409,"date":"2025-10-23T02:53:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/325409\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:53:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:53:29","slug":"houston-area-victims-identified-in-louisiana-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/325409\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston-area victims identified in Louisiana plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/A4DB5CD75E0B61B0CE0232E5FE9BA5A2.jpg\" alt=\"Three Houston-area residents killed in Louisiana small plane crash\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>LAFAYETTE PARISH, La.<\/strong> &#8211; Loved ones are mourning the loss of three Houston-area residents who died in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/plane-crash-louisiana-spring-woodlands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Louisiana plane crash<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>   Louisiana small plane crash: Houston-area victims identified <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The occupants were identified as Bruce Verduyn, 58, Justin Ramsey, 42, both of the Woodlands, and Lydia Laws, 46, of Spring.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Family, friends, and neighbors are mourning the loss of three beloved members of the Houston-area community.<\/p>\n<ul original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Lydia Law<strong>s<\/strong>, 46, of Spring, Texas, was one of the victims. Friends describe her as a wonderful wife and mother.<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Justin Ramsey, 42, from The Woodlands, also died in the crash. His cousin tells FOX 26 that Justin was very involved in his community and was a loving husband and father.<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Bruce Verduyn, 58, also from The Woodlands, was the third victim. Neighbors say they were stunned to hear the news.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Louisiana plane crash <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/screenshot-2025-10-21-191702.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Lafayette Parish plane crash | Courtesy: KADN <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Authorities say three people from the Houston area were killed in a small plane crash Tuesday, shortly after taking off from Hooks Memorial Airport in Spring, TX.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The twin-engine aircraft reportedly took off from Hooks Memorial Airport just before 10 a.m. Tuesday. About an hour later, the plane crashed in a field in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>ORIGINAL REPORT: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/plane-crash-louisiana-spring-woodlands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Three Houston-area residents killed in plane crash in Louisiana<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Deputies with the Lafayette Parish Sheriff&#8217;s Office responded to the scene around 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The call for response reported a small aircraft had lost altitude, circled, and crashed into a field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Investigators found a twin-engine Beechcraft Baron airplane had crashed, and all three occupants were found dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The FAA and NTSB are investigating the crash. The cause of the crash has not been released at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this report comes from previous FOX 26 reporting and loved ones of the crash victims.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/la\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\/spring\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spring<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/montgomery-county\/the-woodlands\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Woodlands<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAFAYETTE PARISH, La. &#8211; Loved ones are mourning the loss of three Houston-area residents who died in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":325410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[6386,4345,2961,9631,50,9877,358,30893,3187,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-325409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-harris-county","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-montgomery-county","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-spring","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-the-woodlands","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115421224370167484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}