A Bibb County sheriff’s report identified the pilot of a plane that made an emergency landing Saturday morning on Riggins Mill Road.
According to the report, John W. Oshaughnessey III of Gleneagles Circle made the emergency landing in his 1966 Piper Cherokee 180 after he realized his oil pressure was low.
Oshaughnessey told deputies he was flying from Macon’s Downtown Airport to Augusta. He landed just before 10 a.m. on Fulton Mill Road near the Georgia Forestry Commission entrance. There was one other passenger aboard.
The plane managed to miss power lines. There was no damage or injuries.
Source: http://www.macon.com
A tow truck driver prepares to load a plane that made an emergency landing on Riggins Mill Road in east Bibb County near the airport Saturday.
No one was injured after a small plane made an emergency landing on a Bibb County road near the Macon Downtown Airport on Saturday.
The pilot, who declined to give his name, said the single-engine Piper Cherokee lost power and he had to set it down. He landed on Riggins Mill Road just south of the Georgia Forestry Commission shortly before 10 a.m. He managed to miss power lines over the road and stopped at the Forestry Commission entrance. He had one passenger in the plane.
Richard Blair, Macon-Bibb County Fire Department district chief, said the plane had already been backed off the road into an entrance when they arrived. He also declined to give the pilot’s name, but said the pilot did a good job of landing the aircraft with the number of power lines around the road. He also said there was no traffic on the road at the time.
Ikeira Robinson, a security guard at the Forestry Commission, was in the guard shack near the road when he saw the plane coming in for a landing. He feared it was going to be bad.
“He did a good job,” Robinson said.
A tow truck loaded the plane and took it to the airport.
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