Local News in Brief : Plane Lands on Beach
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A small plane was forced to land on the shore in Long Beach, but the pilot escaped injury and “nobody even got wet,” police said.
The pilot, who was not identified, apparently had engine trouble or ran out of gas Thursday night over Long Beach, Police Lt. Howard Jenkins said.
“His propeller wasn’t going around and he just landed on the hard part of the sand by the surf,” Jenkins said.
A truck was summoned to come and haul the plane, a single-engine Cessna, to the airport, he said. The plane, which landed south of the Belmont Pier, was not damaged, a Federal Aviation Administration official said.
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