SMALL PLANE LANDS IN BROOKLYN PARK

THIS FROM NY1:
A small plane made an emergency landing on a ballfield in Offerman Park
in Brooklyn Tuesday morning, but no one was injured .

The incident happened just before 11 a.m. on Cropsey and 27th
Avenue in Gravesend. Police say the pilot requested an emergency
landing after experiencing engine trouble.

The single-engine Cessna landed safely in a field used by Saint
Francis College. Although no one was injured, the incident did scare
nearby residents.

"I was in my driveway on 16th Street and I looked up and I saw this
single engine plane wobbling back and forth. It looked like it was
going to hit the building, and then it tried to get back up," said
resident Thomas Tornetto. "It was wobbling and then it made a turn
right toward Pathmark and it came down this way and came over here, in
the weeds back there."

"The gentleman who was flying was very lucky, and I’m very glad
that nobody was injured," said resident Chuck Richenthal. "The plane
seems to be completely intact."

Sources say the single engine plane took off from Linden Airport.