Plane Makes Emergency Landing on Beach in Florida
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Both the pilot of a single-engine propeller plane and his passenger escaped an emergency landing without injury Saturday afternoon, the Jacksonville Beach Police Department said.
The aircraft lost power around 5 p.m. Saturday and was forced to land on the beach, Jacksonville Beach Police Sgt. Tom Bingham said.
The plane landed nose-first into the sand as tanned beachgoers looked on from a distance. Bingham said no one on the beach was injured in the landing. The plane was returning to a Jacksonville area airfield when it was forced to land in the sand instead.
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Although no one was hurt in the landing, the impact on the sand did slightly damage the plane's propeller and nose wheel, Bingham told The Florida Times-Union.
A message left with the Jacksonville Beach Police Department by The Associated Press was not immediately returned Saturday evening.