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What: Secure Aviation Inc Piper PA-31-310 Navajo C
Where: North Ocean Boulevard, West Palm Beach, FL
When: Jan 28 2012 2:46 pm
Who: 1
Why: After having engine problems, a pilot quietly landed his twin-engine Piper Navajo on the beach south of the Palm Beach jetty. He said “The plane didn’t want to run anymore, so it landed.”
The pilot was not injured but the plane suffered some damage and will have to be dismantled to be removed from the beach.
The 1974 plane is registered to Secure Aviation, 10218 SE Banyan Way in Tequesta.