The scene of last night’s crash at Westchester County Airport.
(Journal News Photo)
Quote:
“If he had hit a steel fence or something that didn’t give, it would have been much worse.”
Headline:
1:30 a.m. - Crews were working feverishly to clear the totaled plane from the runway because a liver was being flown in for a transplant patient at Westchester Medical Center
Story:
Plane crashes in Westchester, 2 injured
By Greg ClaryThe Journal News
A small aircraft crashed on landing late last night at Westchester County Airport.
It appears the two people aboard the Cessna escaped serious injury. They were taken to Westchester Medical Center.
Numerous fire departments and ambulance crews scrambled to the airport just before midnight.
"It was coming in for a landing and preliminarily it appears the pilot touched down and clipped some of the runway lights with the wheels of the plane, causing it to flip over," said Kieran O'Leary, spokesman for the Westchester County Police Department...
....There were several aircraft incidents at the airport last year.On Sept. 2, a Long Island man suffered minor injuries after his single-engine plane crashed in an aborted takeoff. The pilot of the 2001 TB-20 Trinidad touched down but slid off Runway 11, crashing into trees and a fence, police said.
In August, a small private plane, a Piaggio P180, experienced a problem with its landing gear and landed on its belly, blocking the main runway for hours. The two people aboard were not injured.
In March 2007, a Gulfstream 200 Galaxy, with six passengers and two pilots aboard, made a safe landing when the pilot missed a turn and slipped about 20 feet off the runway. No one was injured.
According to the county's Web site, 240 single-engine and 135 multi-engine planes and 14 helicopters are based at the airport. There were 179,000 flights out of the airport in 2006.
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