Small plane ditches along busy Doral street, grazes Amazon delivery truck on way down
Federal officials are investigating after a small plane grazed an Amazon truck during an emergency crash-landing on a main Doral artery about four miles west of Miami International Airport.
The pilot told air traffic control he lost power in the plane’s right engine shortly before the landing, said a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board.
The plane came to a stop at an intersection along Northwest 25th Street just west of 87th Avenue late Sunday night, near an industrial complex and the headquarters of Miami-Dade police.
It clipped an 18-wheeler Amazon delivery truck on the way down, according to Doral police.
Surrounding streets were closed late Sunday and the plane was moved, at the direction of federal authorities, to Northwest 89th Court, to lessen traffic congestion during Monday’s rush hour, said Doral police spokesman Rey Valdes.
Traffic was moving slow but steady shortly after 8 a.m. Monday, with the downed plane visible off Northwest 25th Street. Officers were guarding the plane, which was blocked off by police tape. The plane was resting on a strip of road with a canal on both sides.
“The fact that it happened at a Sunday night at 10 p.m. made a big difference,” Valdes told reporters at the scene. “I don’t want to think of what would be during the day or on a weekday.”
There were two men on board the plane, he said. One of them was treated at the crash site for minor injuries.
The plane, numbered N6015Z, is a twin-engine Beechcraft BE-76, also known as a Beechcraft Duchess and was heading from South Carolina to Miami Executive Airport in West Kendall, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
It’s registered under Osorio Aviation Corp, a Miami-Dade for-profit corporation, according to FAA records. The plane’s certificate is valid and will expire in February 2022, according to the FAA.
On the ground in Doral, the plane had some visible damage, including dents and cracked windows. One of its wings was mangled. An NTSB spokesman said the plane’s overall damage was “substantial.”
This is the second plane owned by the corporation to make an emergency crash landing in recent months. In August, one of the corporation’s registered small Piper PA-28 planes crashed in a grassy field near Miami Executive Airport. The crash sent two people to the hospital, one in serious condition. A third passenger was treated on the scene and later released.
The company, which was registered in April 2017 with the state, became inactive in September 2018 for failing to file the required annual reports or other legal guidelines, according to Sunbiz.org. The corporation is registered under Joao Osorio, who was also the corporation’s director. Osorio could not be reached for comment on Monday.
The FAA said it’s investigating and that the National Transportation Safety Board will determine the probable cause of the accident.
This story was originally published November 4, 2019 at 5:12 AM.
