“My understanding, again, the plane might have been diverted for President Trump being in town in Bedminster, nothing to do with the plane itself,” said Danielson.
The plane is registered to the Morristown Flying Club.
Audio from dispatchers after receiving the emergency call was captured by Broadcastify.
“There’s a total of four occupants in the plane. As you said, the’yre all out. It’s completely under the water. Once we get the boat here, we’ll try and mark it out again like we did last time,” a dispatcher said.
A former commercial pilot who still operates a private plane and lives in the area says Aeroflex Airport is a challenging place to land.
“There’s no overrun, so if you don’t make the stop by the end of the runway, you’re going into a lake on the north side, which they did, and on the south side is a swamp. So it’s almost like landing on an aircraft carrier,” said Richard Miller.
A dive team used giant airbags to help lift the plane out of the water and connected it to a heavy-duty truck to pull it out.
This isn’t the first time this has happened. In April 2018,
The pilot, another adult and two children – their relationships unknown – all managed to climb out of the plane and stand on the tail. They were treated on the scene and released.
The plane took off from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and was headed to Morristown airport, but were diverted to the Aeroflex-Andover airport. The details of what went wrong during landing are still being investigated by the FAA.
“My understanding, again, the plane might have been diverted for President Trump being in town in Bedminster, nothing to do with the plane itself,” said Danielson.
The plane is registered to the Morristown Flying Club.
Audio from dispatchers after receiving the emergency call was captured by Broadcastify.
“There’s a total of four occupants in the plane. As you said, the’yre all out. It’s completely under the water. Once we get the boat here, we’ll try and mark it out again like we did last time,” a dispatcher said.
A former commercial pilot who still operates a private plane and lives in the area says Aeroflex Airport is a challenging place to land.
“There’s no overrun, so if you don’t make the stop by the end of the runway, you’re going into a lake on the north side, which they did, and on the south side is a swamp. So it’s almost like landing on an aircraft carrier,” said Richard Miller.
A dive team used giant airbags to help lift the plane out of the water and connected it to a heavy-duty truck to pull it out.
This isn’t the first time this has happened. In April 2018,
The pilot, another adult and two children – their relationships unknown – all managed to climb out of the plane and stand on the tail. They were treated on the scene and released.
The plane took off from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and was headed to Morristown airport, but were diverted to the Aeroflex-Andover airport. The details of what went wrong during landing are still being investigated by the FAA.
“My understanding, again, the plane might have been diverted for President Trump being in town in Bedminster, nothing to do with the plane itself,” said Danielson.
The plane is registered to the Morristown Flying Club.
Audio from dispatchers after receiving the emergency call was captured by Broadcastify.
“There’s a total of four occupants in the plane. As you said, the’yre all out. It’s completely under the water. Once we get the boat here, we’ll try and mark it out again like we did last time,” a dispatcher said.
A former commercial pilot who still operates a private plane and lives in the area says Aeroflex Airport is a challenging place to land.
“There’s no overrun, so if you don’t make the stop by the end of the runway, you’re going into a lake on the north side, which they did, and on the south side is a swamp. So it’s almost like landing on an aircraft carrier,” said Richard Miller.
A dive team used giant airbags to help lift the plane out of the water and connected it to a heavy-duty truck to pull it out.
This isn’t the first time this has happened. In April 2018,
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