Two-seater Cessna plane makes emergency landing on Ocean City, Maryland, beach
by Brad Matthews · The Washington TimesA small airplane made an emergency landing Monday on a stretch of beach near Ocean City, Maryland, authorities said.
The two-seat Cessna 150K plane landed near 94th Street around 5:30 p.m., the Ocean City Fire Department said. No injuries were reported.
Fire Department spokesperson Ryan Whittington told The Baltimore Sun that the pilot avoided beachgoers and the plane did not leak any fuel during or after the incident.
“There was no sound, I just suddenly saw a plane, like dive down. It was level, it just flew level with the sand, and then nose-dived into the sand and crashed,” witness BethAnn Wells, who lives in an apartment near the crash site, told WBOC-TV.
Fire officials said the plane had taken off from Ocean City Municipal Airport about 7½ miles from where it landed, but did not specify what issue led to the emergency landing.
Authorities have not identified the plane’s occupants. Fire officials posted a video showing the aircraft’s Federal Aviation Administration registration number, N-6129G. The plane’s owner is listed as William E. Peters of Bel Air, Maryland, according to the registry.
The Maryland State Police, which is leading the investigation into the incident, told WBOC-TV that both occupants are Bel Air residents.
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