Crime & Safety
Plane Lands on Freeway in Otay Mesa
The plane landed on State Route 125 east of Brown Field. No injuries have been reported.
Updated at 12:42 p.m.
A light plane with apparent engine trouble made a safe emergency landing on State Route 125 in Otay Mesa Friday, authorities reported.
The white single-engine Cessna 150C with a sole occupant aboard touched down shortly after 11 a.m. on the northbound side of the freeway, about a mile north of Otay Mesa Road, according to the California Highway Patrol and the Federal Aviation Administration.
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The pilot reported losing power while approaching Brown Field airport in southern San Diego at the end of a flight out of Ensenada, Mexico, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said.
A single lane on the freeway was closed while authorities arranged get the aircraft off the roadway, CHP public-affairs Officer Robert Catano said. It was towed away shortly before noon.
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The Cessna is registered to Valley Center resident John Renquist, a commercial pilot, flight instructor, aircraft mechanic and experimental- airplane builder, according to FAA records.
In a separate incident, a Navy helicopter made an emergency landing in a park in Chula Vista last week.
– City News Service
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