A small single-engine plane crash landed in Pembroke Pines Thursday afternoon, injuring the pilot, who was the only person on board, police and fire rescue officials said.
Pembroke Pines Police said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, about 2:30 p.m. that the crash happened in the 700 block of Southwest 72nd Avenue. The pilot was conscious and breathing.
The crash scene is about a mile away from North Perry Airport.
Scott Gunn, Pembroke Pines Fire Rescue Division Chief, said the pilot was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital for a leg injury and is in stable condition. The plane had minor damage, and there was no fire or fuel leak.
UPDATE: The roadway at SW 72nd Avenue, just south of Pines Boulevard, is being reopened. The pilot was transported to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
— Pembroke Pines PD (@PPinesPD) October 26, 2023
Additional details have not been released.
According to FlightAware, the Mooney M-20 took off from North Perry Airport shortly after 1:30 p.m.
On the same street in March 2021, a small plane crashed into an SUV, killing a 4-year-old boy in the car and the two people in the plane.
The Mooney M-20 is the fourth small plane this year that took off from North Perry Airport and crashed. A Cessna 172 crashed at the airport on Aug. 4, killing a flight instructor and one passenger and injuring a second passenger.
Two small planes crashed in May a week apart. On May 17, the pilot of a banner towing plane crashed in a shopping plaza in Hollywood and died. On May 25, the pilot of a similar small plane crashed at the airport and survived.
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration will investigate, the FAA said in a statement Thursday afternoon.
The NTSB is actively investigating the two May crashes and the crash in early August. Since 2020, the agency has launched investigations into 13 crashes of planes that departed from North Perry Airport, according to a database of their investigations.
The airport, positioned in a largely residential area, is home to flight schools and is the busiest general aviation airport in Florida. It ranks fifth of all airports in the country for lead emissions.
Information from the Sun Sentinel archives was used in this report.
