MIAMI – The one engine Piper that crashed in Hollywood on Wednesday is at minimum the fourth aircraft from Aerial Banner, Inc. involved in an accident.
CBS Information Miami went to North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines the place the banner plane took off to discover out much more about the plane that went down killing its pilot.
The airport located at 101 SW 77th Way in Pembroke Pines, almost straight away diverted any media from coming into the region.
The workplaces of Aerial Banner, Inc. are located at the airport. As the crew from CBS News Miami approached a person of the gates, we have been instructed we could not go forward and ended up offered a cellphone number to call anyone from the Aviation Office. As we known as Aerial Banner, Inc. we ended up advised the aircraft was theirs.
Performing exploration, CBS News Miami found out in 2019 a different banner aircraft from Aerial Banner hit an 18-tale condominium making in Fort Lauderdale. That plane then fell a number of flooring onto an out of doors pool deck. The pilot also died in that crash. Practically promptly that yr, CBS News Miami interviewed Bob Benyo, president and C.E.O. of Aerial Banners, he stated, “It was a horrific matter for us.”
According to LinkedIn, Benyo nevertheless holds the position of president for Aerial Banner, inc. The firm’s web site claims they have extra than 50 planes at destinations all around the place, like Miami, Fort Lauderdale, New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle, and Alaska.
A search of our archives observed there have been at the very least two other banner plane accidents just before.
In March 2015, a pilot survived a aircraft crash in Broward County, the aircraft was also owned by Aerial Banners Inc. It crashed in some marsh h2o about 3 miles west of U.S. freeway 27.
The yr just before that (in March 2014), a banner aircraft crashed into a lake in northeast Miami Dade County in close proximity to Interstate 95. The pilot was returning to North Perry Airport when the plane dropped engine handle. The pilot survived.
This Wednesday the final result was very distinctive, at this time there are several questions unanswered.
