| Date | Incident | Description |
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March 31, 2024 | Plane crashes at Treasure Coast International Airport, killing 1 | One person was killed in a plane crash a training flight at Treasure Coast International Airport, and a second person in the airplane was taken to a nearby hospital, authorities said. |
Jan. 23, 2024 | Plane makes 'soft landing' north of Sebastian; no injuries reported | A small plane made a “soft landing” in an open field about 7 miles north of the Vero Beach Regional Airport, Tuesday, according to Indian River County sheriff’s officials. The two adults onboard were not injured, officials said. |
Sept. 6, 2023 | Plane makes 'emergency landing' after engine failure | There were no injuries reported after the “emergency landing” of a plane near Minute Maid Road, according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office. |
Aug. 17, 2023 | 1 dead, 1 injured after plane crashes into building in St. Lucie County | The crash happened in western St. Lucie County. Officials found two people inside a four-seat Piper plane on private property. |
May 21, 2023 | Well-known Treasure Coast businessman dies following plane crash in Palm City | The pilot and lone occupant of a single-engine propeller plane died when his plane crashed in the backyard of a home, according to Martin County Fire Rescue and Sheriff's Office officials. |
April 7, 2023 | Pilot dies during plane crash near Sebastian airport | The pilot of a single-engine Piper plane died following a crash when the plane appeared to stall ahead of an attempted landing at Sebastian Municipal Airport, according to reports from witnesses and a fire rescue official. |
Sept. 28, 2021 | 1 injured after plane crash lands in Hobe Sound | One person was airlifted to the hospital following a plane crash in a field off Southeast Bridge Road near South Florida Grassing Inc. |
Aug. 2, 2021 | Plane makes emergency landing on Glades Cutoff Road in Port St. Lucie | No one was injured after a Cessna plane landed on Glades Cutoff Road in western Port St. Lucie. The pilot had his 4-year-old son on the plane during the 11:30 a.m. incident. |
June 18, 2021 | Pilot, passenger injured in small-engine plane crash in Martin County | A pilot and a passenger are recovering from their injuries after their plane crashed. Federal investigators described the aircraft as a single-engine Cessna 172. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are jointly investigating the crash. |
March 30, 2021 | Plane crashes in canal, causing serious injuries to pilot | Frank Webster said the flight out of Treasure Coast International Airport and Business Park in his single-engine plane was supposed to be a leisurely one. It wouldn’t be long before the plane would be in a canal north of Florida’s Turnpike and east of Minute Maid Road. |
March 16, 2021 | Plane slides off runway into grass at Treasure Coast International Airport in Fort Pierce | While a flight instructor and student practiced landings at the Treasure Coats International Airport in Fort Pierce, the plane's nose angled to the right and slid off the runway onto grass. It hit a yellow directional sign and took off the main gear. No one was injured. |
Feb. 28, 2021 | Plane crash at Tailwinds kills 1, injures 1 | Larry Keith Carpenter, 71, was killed when his 1947 Luscombe 8A single-engine plane crashed into the woods in the Tailwinds community near Jupiter. His teenage son, David, was injured. It was not immediately known why the plane went down. |
Feb. 22, 2021 | Plane stalls, touches down on grass near Treasure Coast airport runway | During a short field landing at the Treasure Coast International Airport in Fort Pierce, a student pilot stalled the plane and lost directional control. The plane touched down on the grass near the runway. |
Dec. 28, 2020 | Pilot injured in Vero Beach crash-land | A pilot crash-landed a plane on a runway after its landing gear malfunctioned while flying into Vero Beach Regional Airport. The pilot was the only person on the plane and was uninjured. |
Nov. 18, 2020 | Plane slides off grass runway at airpark | An experienced pilot escaped injury Wednesday night after the plane he was flying slid off a grass runway at Treasure Coast Airpark, in Port. St. Lucie. The aircraft, a 1959 fixed-wing Aero Commander, which FAA records show is owned by TAB Associates, Inc, in Lake Worth, came to stop in a water-filled ditch. |
Dec. 2, 2019 | Plane crash lands in field near Vero Beach airport | A 22-year-old student pilot was flying a 2000 Piper PA-28 Cherokee airplane on his first solo flight when the aircraft lost power. The pilot was uninjured. NTSB's final report indicates the probable cause was the "pilot's improper fuel management, which resulted in fuel starvation and a total loss of engine power." |
Nov. 1, 2019 | Experienced pilot dies after plane crash before start of Stuart Air Show | Dr. Joseph Masessa was practicing in a Grumman Mohawk before the Stuart Air Show when witnesses said it went "nose down" into the runway. Witnesses outside the airport reported seeing black smoke after the crash. The plane was fully engulfed in flames.
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Aug. 23, 2019 | Plane makes emergency landing on U.S. 1 in Hobe Sound | A pilot guided his two passengers and single-engine plane to safety when the need for an emergency landing prompted him to skid along the southbound and northbound lanes of U.S. 1, avoiding traffic. No one was injured. The plane, a Beech F33A, was substantially damanged. |
May 27, 2019 | Small plane makes emergency landing in Palm City | No one was injured when a small plane landed in a residential area of Palm City. The plane, which had two people on board, landed near Southwest Berry Avenue and Southwest Strawberry Terrace, after engine failure. |
April 29, 2019 | Plane damaged after forced landing in field near Sebastian | A student pilot and flight instructor were uninjured after they made a forced landing in a field near Sebastian. The Piper PA28A took off from the Vero Beach Regional Airport about 12:45 p.m. |
March 8, 2019 | Stuart attorneys among fatal plane crash victims | A pair of Stuart attorneys were among the five people who died aboard a plane that crashed near Lake Okeechobee. NTSB said the probable cause was "The pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane while maneuvering for landing with one engine inoperative following a loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined based on the available information." |
March 5, 2019 | Plane crashes in Indian River County near Interstate 95, killing pilot | The pilot of a small plane that crashed in a wooded area near Interstate 95 died. It took hours for first responders to reach the heavily damaged plane, which was deep in the woods south of Vero Lake Estates. NTSB probable cause was "The student pilot's loss of control due to spatial disorientation following an encounter with instrument meteorological conditions shortly after takeoff. Contributing to the accident was the failure of both the pilot and the flight school to ensure that the pilot had received the proper endorsements for the flight and the pilot’s self-imposed pressure to complete the flight in order to remain in the flight program." |
Feb. 8, 2019 | Plane crashes near Indian River County Jail | A 21-year-old pilot who had engine trouble as he came in for a landing avoided disaster by crash-landing near the Indian River County Jail. The pilot was trying to land on 40th Street, just south of the jail. NTSB's final report found the probable cause was "The pilot's failure to use carburetor heat while operating the airplane in weather conditions and at engine power settings conducive to the formation of carburetor ice, which resulted in a loss of engine power due to carburetor icing and the subsequent forced landing." |
Aug. 15, 2018 | Special light sport airplane crashes after landing gear issue in Stuart | According to the NTSB: During landing, the airplane touched down normally on the main landing gear. After 50 ft of ground roll, the nose landing gear touched down and collapsed; one propeller blade subsequently separated, and the airplane came to rest upright on the runway. |
June 17, 2018 | Landing gear collapsed after landing, small plane damaged on runway in Vero Beach | From NTSB report: On short final approach, the pilot again confirmed that the landing gear were extended, and the airplane touched down near the touchdown markings. The pilot added that, after about 500 ft of landing roll, the NLG collapsed, and the airplane came to rest upright on the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the underside of the fuselage. |