{"id":718,"date":"2011-09-02T03:04:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T10:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=718"},"modified":"2019-02-07T14:35:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T22:35:56","slug":"plane-makes-emergency-landing-on-sierra-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2011\/09\/02\/plane-makes-emergency-landing-on-sierra-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane makes emergency landing on Sierra Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACTON &#8211; Palmdale Sheriff\u2019s Station deputies responded to Sierra Highway near Red Rover Mine Road in Acton regarding a low flying aircraft at 1:10PM Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived they discovered that the plane, a 1946 single engine \u201cErcoupe 415-c\u201d, had already landed on Sierra Highway. There were no injuries to the plane\u2019s pilot, a 77-year old male Long Beach resident and the sole passenger, a 65-year old female Long Beach resident.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot said he had recently purchased the plane and taken off from nearby Fox Field in Lancaster, and was headed to Long Beach Airport when he experienced a mechanical failure and was forced to land on the highway.<\/p>\n<p>No traffic collisions occurred and no people were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Aero Bureau and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigators responded. FAA will be investigating further.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft has since been removed from the highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACTON &#8211; Palmdale Sheriff\u2019s Station deputies responded to Sierra Highway near Red Rover Mine Road in Acton regarding a low flying aircraft at 1:10PM Thursday. When they arrived they discovered that the plane, a 1946 single engine \u201cErcoupe 415-c\u201d, had already landed on Sierra Highway. There were no injuries to the plane\u2019s pilot, a 77-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}