TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. — An motor challenge compelled a pilot to make an crisis landing Sunday morning on the beach front near the Bilmar Seaside Vacation resort.
A solitary-engine Piper PA-28 died more than the Gulf of Mexico, its pilot said, who then tried to restart it “like a million occasions” to no avail. Arthur Czyszczon, the basic manager at Site Terrace Beachfront Lodge, mentioned he heard the airplane sputtering around Caddy’s.
It strike a pole and landed on the seaside. Video clip taken by Trevor Thompson exhibits the aircraft coming down onto the beach and sliding in advance of coming to a end.
Two men and women were being on board, and neither essential significant healthcare attention.
The rescue contact to start with went out as an aircraft unexpected emergency.
She’s the pilot w/ the little one. 3rd working day again at perform following maternity go away, she informed me. Extremely happy to see her household who arrived out listed here following the crisis landing here on the seashore. @10TampaBay pic.twitter.com/0kPJQ09jSw
— Josh Sidorowicz WTSP (@JoshWTSP) January 17, 2021
Treasure Island Law enforcement and Pinellas County Fire Rescue stay on scene.
The Federal Aviation Administration now is tasked with firing out what led up to the crisis landing.
“A solitary-motor Piper PA-28 produced a pressured landing on Treasure Island Seaside in Saint Petersburg, Fla., all over 9 a.m. area time nowadays. Two people today were aboard,” it explained in a statement.
