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No injuries in small plane crash
Investigators look over a crash landed single engine plane Wednesday at North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines. A plane landed upside down at the airport, but neither the pilot nor passenger was hurt, officials said. The two flyers were aboard the single-engine Piper PA-38 Tomahawk, traveling over Pembroke Pines, when the pilot made an emergency landing, according to a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
PEMBROKE PINES — A plane crash-landed upside down at North Perry Airport on Wednesday, but neither the pilot nor passenger were hurt, officials said.
The two flyers were aboard the single-engine Piper PA-38 Tomahawk, traveling over Pembroke Pines on Wednesday morning, when the pilot made an emergency landing, according to a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
North Perry Airport has seen a number of plane crashes in recent months. Last month, a pilot was killed when he crashed at the airport. And in May, a pilot-in-training was killed when he and an instructor tried to land at the airport.
The plane in Wednesday’s crash had taken off from the same airport.
Engine failure is suspected as the cause of the crash, according to Pembroke Pines Fire Division Chief Marcel Rodriguez.
The plane came to its final resting place on Loop Road on the south side of North Perry Airport, adjacent to Broward College.
The plane is registered to Everglades Aviation Academy in Weston. Attempts to reach someone at the flight school were unsuccessful.
Flight logs show the plane took off at 7:32 a.m. and flew in a figure-8 pattern for about 23 miles before crashing at the airport. The plane had flown on Nov. 26 and Nov. 23 without any issues, records show.
The model of airplane was produced from 1978 through 1982, according to Janes’s All The World’s Aircraft, an encyclopedia on aircraft. The plane is relatively lightweight, at about 1,128 pounds and capable of a maximum speed of 126 mph.