Video: Driver arrested after crashing through fence at Daytona airport

Date Added: March 25, 2026 7:45 pm

CASE UPDATE: The driver who crashed through a locked perimeter gate at Daytona Beach International Airport this afternoon is Bryan J. Parker, 58 (DOB 3/18/1968), Holly Hill.

Around 4:25 p.m. today, a deputy was notified that a blue Ford Mustang had just crashed through a gate of a perimeter fence. On arrival at the gate, the deputy found it destroyed and lying on the ground. Personnel indicated the Mustang plowed through it and headed toward the Embry-Riddle section of the airport.

On arrival at the scene moments later, the deputy found Parker already detained by airport operations and Embry-Riddle security personnel.

Witnesses reported Parker's Mustang entered the taxiway and nearly struck an Embry-Riddle plane that was taxiing. Parker then got out of Mustang and tried to enter the occupied plane, but was unsuccessful. As Parker ran to other aircraft in the area, an airport operations technician chased him down, pulled him out of a plane and sat him on his truck's tailgate. However, Parker jumped off the tailgate and ran toward another plane before he was once again apprehended and placed in handcuffs.

Parker indicated he was intoxicated on alcohol and drugs and didn't remember what led to the incident.

Parker was booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail and faces the following state charges: Aircraft Piracy (Attempted), Burglary of a Conveyance, Felony Trespass (Airport), Exposure of Sexual Organs (2 counts), Criminal Mischief, DUI Property Damage, Refusal to submit to testing.

Earlier post below.

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This afternoon, around 4:23 p.m., a vehicle drove through a perimeter fence gate at the international terminal of Daytona Beach International Airport and proceeded onto the airfield.

The driver, an adult male who was highly intoxicated, approached an occupied, running airplane and attempted to make entry. He was unable to enter the locked plane.

Following that attempt, he approached two other unoccupied airplanes and briefly made entry to them before he was interrupted by airport operations staff and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University security.

The suspect is currently in custody and being interviewed. Multiple charges are pending. The VSO Domestic Security Unit is on scene along with the FBI.

DBIA operations are continuing without disruption while the investigation continues.