CORPUS CHRISTI -
A pilot who had just taken off from Corpus Christi International Airport ran into a pilot's worst nightmare Friday afternoon.
The left engine on George Fisher's Cessna 414A Chancellor gave out when he was just 50 miles from the airport.
He couldn't get it restarted so he decided an emergency landing was his only option.
Fisher says he's flown since 1970, but this is the first time he's ever had an engine failure.
Lucky for him, he was trained for this type of emergency.
"We practice that all the time, I just finished three days with a flight instructor for re-qualification I'd flown around about four hours single-engine last weekend," says Fisher.
Fisher was flying to Houston with his family for the Wings Over Texas airshow this weekend. He says they'll be driving to the air show now.
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