{"id":71420,"date":"2026-04-10T20:57:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/sen-tim-sheehy-makes-emergency-landing-after-in-flight-engine-failure\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T20:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:57:51","slug":"sen-tim-sheehy-makes-emergency-landing-after-in-flight-engine-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/sen-tim-sheehy-makes-emergency-landing-after-in-flight-engine-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen Tim Sheehy makes emergency landing after in-flight engine failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/montana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont.<\/a>, was forced to make an emergency landing Friday after experiencing in-flight engine failure while piloting a plane.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sheehy\u2019s chief of staff, Mike Berg, the senator was conducting a routine flight training exercise that he completes twice a year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This afternoon, Sen. Sheehy was engaged in a routine flight training exercise which he completes twice a year,&#8221; Berg said in a statement. &#8220;The aircraft experienced a mechanical engine failure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Berg said Sheehy and his co-pilot made an emergency landing in a field.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/emergency-landing-ends-tragedy-plane-crashes-new-mexico-golf-course\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>EMERGENCY LANDING ENDS IN TRAGEDY AS PLANE CRASHES ON NEW MEXICO GOLF COURSE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/travel\/general\/travel-safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Neither pilot was injured<\/a>,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/travel\/plane-door-opens-midair-moments-takeoff-flight-passengers-stunned-social-media-buzzing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>PLANE DOOR OPENS IN MIDAIR MOMENTS AFTER TAKEOFF, LEAVING FLIGHT PASSENGERS STUNNED AND SOCIAL MEDIA BUZZING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plane landed in a field in Ennis, Montana, according to KBZK.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet reported that Sheehy is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/air-and-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FAA-certified commercial pilot<\/a> and certified flight instructor.<\/p>\n<p>Reached for comment, Sheehy\u2019s office referred Fox News Digital to Berg\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<p><i>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., was forced to make an emergency landing Friday after experiencing in-flight engine failure while piloting a plane. According to Sheehy\u2019s chief of staff, Mike Berg, the senator was conducting a routine flight training exercise that he completes twice a year. &#8220;This afternoon, Sen. Sheehy was engaged in a routine flight training &#8230; <a title=\"Sen Tim Sheehy makes emergency landing after in-flight engine failure\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/sen-tim-sheehy-makes-emergency-landing-after-in-flight-engine-failure\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sen Tim Sheehy makes emergency landing after in-flight engine failure\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}