Fri, Oct 14, 2011
TBM 700 Crumpled, Two Men Transported To Hospital
The US National Transportation Safety Board is on the case of an
aviation accident that snarled midday highway traffic on the
Florida Turnpike Wednesday afternoon about 1300. The Broward County
Aviation Department reported the craft was a Socata TBM 700
turboprop (file photo shows similar aircraft). Florida Highway
Patrol reports the plane encountered some sort of mechanical
problem, and the pilot managed to get it down without hitting any
vehicles.
NBC Miami quotes FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen in reporting
the flight departed North Perry Airport for a round trip to
Opa-locka, and FHP adds the pilot had been cleared to land back at
North Perry, but for some reason set it down in the northbound
lanes of the turnpike west of town, and hit the median barrier.
An asphalt worker nearby, Carlos Parodi, told NBC Miami the
plane crashed 30 feet from his truck, and fuel was leaking, but
when it did not catch fire, he ran to help extricate two occupants
trapped by a jammed door. Both were taken by ambulance to Memorial
Regional Hospital with what are described as non-life-threatening
injuries.
The pilot has been identified as 49-year-old Alain Jaubert of
Julos, France. His passenger was 50-year-old Donato Pinto, an
Italian native who now lives in Aventura, Florida. The wreckage was
not completely cleared from the highway for five hours after the
accident. There has been no comment from the plane's registered
owner, SV Leasing Company of Florida.
The Socata TBM 700 is a single-engine turboprop derived from a
1980s Mooney piston prototype, and is normally configured with
either six or seven seats. Production was discontinued in 2006,
when the aircraft was replaced by the TBM 850, a more powerful
variant.
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