Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Flight Design CTLS, N15NK: Incident occurred June 10, 2014 near Cedar Point Beach, Ohio

 
"A bit of news about this airplane I'm flying in this video.   On June 10, 2014 at around 4:00 pm the airplane was involved in a birdstrike.  A duck came through the windshield.  The windshield was almost completely destroyed and there is a small hole in the vertical stabilizer.  The pilot was having trouble maintaining altitude after the birdstrike and landed on the beach at Cedar Point."  

AIRCRAFT FORCE LANDED ON A BEACH AFTER THE WINDSHIELD SUSTAINED DAMAGE DUE TO A BIRDSTRIKE, NEAR CEDAR POINT, OH 

FAA Cleveland FSDO-25

Flight Design CTLS,  RUGH III LLC, N15NK:   http://registry.faa.gov/N15NK


SANDUSKY, Ohio– A single-engine aircraft is forced to make an emergency landing at Cedar Point Beach, Tuesday afternoon.

A spokesperson for the park said the landing was made on a private area of the beach.

No one was injured.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol said a duck hit and cracked the windshield, forcing the plane to land right away.

Sandusky Register snapped photos of the plane on the beach.

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