Sunday, November 6, 2011

Pilot Makes Emergency Landing At Yeager Airport

{Charleston, West Virginia}...Police at Yeager Airport in Charleston say, around noon Sunday, a small Cessna 206 plane touched down with no landing gear.  A small fire was extinguished quickly after the Cessna landed. The pilot was the only person aboard the aircraft. Officials say John Upton was flying his single engine Cessna from Ravenswood to Cincinnati, Ohio when, shortly after takeoff, he noticed that there was a problem with the landing gear. Upton decided to fly to Yeager Airport because they had the proper emergency equipment to handle the situation.