The pilot of this airplane had to make a hard landing in a field off Hillside and Central avenues just short of the Riverside Municipal Airport.
Two men look for the fence from the Riverside Municipal Airport side at a airplane that made a hard landing in a field off of Hillside Ave and Central Ave just short of the Riverside Municipal Airport in Riverside,
August 18, 2012.
A small passenger plane made a hard landing just outside of the Riverside Municipal Airport on Saturday afternoon, August 18.
No one on board was harmed and the plane suffered no visible damage, according to passenger Jim Cooper.
The plane, which carried the pilot, Cooper and another passenger, was blown off course to the runway by strong crosswinds. It landed in the drainage ditch of a nearby industrial complex.
According to Cooper, a friend of the pilot, he was not too afraid when he noticed the plane veering off course. He would not disclose the pilot’s name. The other passenger did not give his name.
“You’re just kind of along for the ride,” Cooper said, laughing. “You can get scared later. My life didn’t flash before my eyes or anything. I just noticed there was no power and there was no way we would make the runway.”
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