As he attempted to land on the street in Pembroke Pines, the plane struck a powerline over a busy intersection. The instructor took over the plane and headed back to the airport when he told North Perry air traffic control the plane could not maintain proper altitude. Both sustained serious injuries in the crash.Īfter a plane departed and headed towards a practice area west of the airport, the flight instructor reported the right engine failed about ten minutes into the flight. The 24-year-old did not let go of the controls and the instructor could not stop the stall, causing the plane to fall and crash into the marshland. The National Transportation Safety Board found the 'pilot's failure to maintain proper altitude and clearance' resulted in the collision.ĭuring a training flight from North Perry to a practice area in the Everglades, the flight instructor told the commercial pilot to 'release the controls' as part of a power-off stall demonstration. The plane hit the 16th and 17th floors of a 19-story building in Fort Lauderdale, killing the pilot. During the flight over Hollywood Beach, the 28-year-old pilot began a right turn at 250 feet above ground level over a heavily congested area with tall buildings. New Times' review of a National Transportation Safety Board database shows at least nine other aircraft crashes linked to North Perry Airport that resulted in death or serious injury since March 2019.Ī recently hired banner-tow pilot was operating a banner-tow plane when he departed from North Perry Airport. Hall was a student pilot who resided in West Park in Broward County. Yen was a flight instructor who ran Straight and Level Seaplanes, a Mount Dora-based company which offered tours and pilot instruction. The Miramar Police Department identified the fatally injured victims from the October 17 crash as Jordan Travis Hall, 32, and Antony Yen, 34. The Aventura II appears to have fit that mold: it was an inexpensive, ultralight aircraft that could be built from a manufacturer-provided kit.

Other accidents in the past few years have involved experimental or amateur-built aircraft. Several planes flying to or from the airport with student pilots aboard have crashed in recent years, resulting in injury or death. North Perry is a popular hub for flight instruction. I feel like there's nothing we can do about it,' he says.

'There's definitely been an increase in recent years. He says he's well aware of the uptick in plane crashes linked to North Perry. Gregorio Gould, who lives with his family two streets away from airport, says he observed the Aventura II aircraft losing engine power before it plunged into his neighborhood this week. I have a new baby and it terrifies me she can be out in the yard and this happens,' Moya adds. Miramar resident Johanna Moya, who has lived six blocks from the airport since 2000, tells New Times 'something has to change.' Two men aboard the plane and the child, who was a passenger in the car, were fatally injured. Many members of the community still have fresh memories of a March 2021 accident that killed a 4-year-old boy on a road next to North Perry. A private plane, whose pilot was trying to dash back to a runway following an engine failure, smashed into a vehicle driving on a residential road just outside North Perry.

Residents living in the surrounding neighborhoods have expressed concerns over their safety given the spate of accidents, some of which have involved planes nosediving directly into residential areas. The accident is at least the seventh fatal plane crash since March 2019 involving North Perry, a general aviation airport in Pembroke Pines. A mother and her infant child were inside the house, but escaped without injury.Īs of the morning of October 18, the wrecked plane was still dangling upside-down in the residential neighborhood. After taking off from North Perry Airport on October 17, an Aventura II plane crashed into a nearby Miramar home, fatally wounding the plane's two occupants.

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