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Private plane makes emergency beach landing.
ST. JOE BEACH — A four-seat private plane bound for Panama City was forced to make an emergency landing Thursday morning along the wide sands of St. Joe Beach.
>>See a gallery of photos of the plane on the beach.
Randy Crapsey, of Port St. Joe, was co-piloting on his first training flight in 12 years when he and his instructor, Ronald Jarmon, were forced to make an emergency landing due to engine problems.
The single-engine Cessna was traveling from the Apalachicola Airport, […]
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Local Instructor makes emergency landing on busy Atlanta HWY
Pilot Matt Conway successfully touched the plane down on Interstate 85 after suffering engine problems.
The plane skidded to a halt without hitting any cars on a southbound stretch of the road a few miles from Peachtree DeKalb Airport.
Television pictures showed traffic snarled for miles as the Piper Saratoga blocked at least four lanes as rush hour was beginning. It was hauled away a few hours later.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said no injuries were reported.
DeKalb County Officer Jason Gagnon […]
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Cessna Strike Averted
September 19, 2010
Cessna Strike Averted
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By Russ Niles, Editor-in-Chief
Production workers at Cessna Aircraft rejected the notion of a strike but they also told the company they don’t much like the contract they’ll work under for the next seven years. Members of the Machinists Union voted 58 percent to reject the deal but only 49 percent to strike in voting Saturday. The union had recommended a strike but a two-thirds majority was required. The main issue was […]
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‘$100 Hamburger’, a pilot’s meal that is slowing down with the economy
By: William Egart
Atlanta General Aviation Examiner
It was not until the economic downturn over the past three years, did generations of flyers stop using a personal, or rented, airplane to fly to another airport for the sake of grabbing a bite to eat at a modest, airport -based, restaurant. This activity was known as a “$100.00 Hamburger”. Is this Saturday afternoon joyride gone forever?
Until 2000, that moniker was always considered a slight exaggeration. As recently as the mid-nineties, two Metro Atlanta […]
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New Video: Come fly with me.
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