{"id":228942,"date":"2026-04-12T20:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228942\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T20:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:38:06","slug":"ntsb-determines-cause-of-the-fatal-2024-fort-pierce-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228942\/","title":{"rendered":"NTSB determines cause of the fatal 2024 Fort Pierce plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE, FL \u2014 After the two-year investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board has determined the probable cause of a fatal plane crash in Fort Pierce on March 30th, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>A 22-year-old flight instructor was killed and a 19-year old student pilot was seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>According the NTSB report, the instructor failed to maintain control of the plane after a partial loss of engine power.<\/p>\n<p>The report also stated that a contributing factor to the crash was a worn and loose throttle component that a mechanic had failed to check during an inspection the day before.<\/p>\n<p>The flight instructor and student pilot were from Aviator Collage, located at Treasure Coast International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred on airport property during a training exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The report states that following the accident, the flight school implemented a new safety inspection program.<\/p>\n<p>Read our previous coverage on the crash <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/region-st-lucie-county\/fort-pierce\/victim-in-small-plane-crash-at-treasure-coast-international-airport-identified\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, FL \u2014 After the two-year investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board has determined the probable cause&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-228942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}