Wednesday, 30 July 2008

WAVY TV 10 : Virginia and North Carolina News -Vintage plane makes unexpected landing in Pungo

WAVY TV 10 : Virginia and North Carolina News -Vintage plane makes unexpected landing in Pungo: "VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY.com) -- Virginia State Police tell WAVY.com a single engine plane made an emergency landing in the Pungo section of Virginia Beach.

The call came in to police at 11:20 a.m. Tuesday.

No one was hurt when the aircraft went down in a field off of the 1300 block of Princess Anne Road.

State Police spokesperson Sgt. Michelle Cotten says the plane was having problems with its landing gear.

The plane is a vintage YAK-3, a Russian aircraft from World War II . It's owned by the Fighter Factory, whose facility is near where the aircraft went down."

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