Pilot makes emergency landing at airport, avoids injury
Published 8:53 am Wednesday, September 17, 2014
A plane was damaged but there were no injuries Tuesday when a pilot made an emergency landing at the Chilton County Aiprort.
Billy Singleton with the Chilton County Airport Authority said the pilot was en route to Atlanta when his Mooney single-engine aircraft lost power to the engine.
He was able to land the plane at Gragg-Wade Field shortly after 5 p.m. but ran off the runway and into a mandated “safety area.”
“Everything worked like it should,” Singleton said. “Fire and rescue checked him out, and everything was OK except for some damage to the plane.”