Plane makes emergency landing at decommissioned Opa-locka West Airport

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A plane made an emergency landing Wednesday morning in a grassy field at the decommissioned Opa-locka West Airport.

Sky 10 was above the area near Northwest 186th Street and 137th Avenue just after 9:30 a.m. as all occupants were outside the plane. None appeared to be injured.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the single-engine Cessna A152 made the emergency landing around 9:10 a.m.

“The plane went off the runway into the grass. Two people were on board,” the FAA said in an email to Local 10 News.

The plane departed from North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines earlier in the morning.

According to the FAA registry, the plane is registered to Delaware Trust, based in Wilmington, Delaware.

The cause of the emergency landing was not immediately known.

The FAA is investigating.


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