Pilot makes emergency landing at airport, avoids injury

Published 8:53 am Wednesday, September 17, 2014

A pilot who made an emergency landing Tuesday at Gragg-Wade Field was unable to keep the plane on the runway but avoided injury.

A pilot who made an emergency landing Tuesday at Gragg-Wade Field was unable to keep the plane on the runway but avoided injury.

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.”