rockaway mall plane crash
ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A small plane made an emergency landing in a mall’s parking lot on Tuesday, stunning back-to-school shoppers, and the pilot and a passenger emerged with only minor injuries. [1]
ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. - A small plane made an emergency landing in a mall’s parking lot on Tuesday, stunning back-to-school shoppers, and the pilot and a passenger emerged with only minor injuries. [2]
A small plane made an emergency landing in a New Jersey mall parking lot Tuesday, slightly injuring the instructor and student inside but apparently hurting no one on the ground. [3]
ROCKAWAY, N.J. - A small plane crash landed in a parking lot of a northern New Jersey mall on Tuesday. [4]
ROCKAWAY — A small plane that had engine trouble made an emergency landing today at the Rockaway Townsquare Mall, according Capt. [...] No one was hurt, as the two occupants, a student pilot and a flight instructor, were able to get out of the Cessna 172 on their own, authorities said. [5]
ROCKAWAY, N.J. (WPIX) - A plane has crash landed in the parking lot of a northern New Jersey shopping mall, PIX News has learned. [6]
Virginia Skolsky said she was amazed there were not more cars in the parking lot — given that so many people were going to JCPenny’s for back to school shopping. [5]
The plane circled the mall several times before coming down hard and blowing out its tires, witnesses said. [2]
Cars were a mere 100 yards or so from the spot where a pilot made an emergency landing in the Rockaway Townsquare Mall. [4]
In 1996, two people suffered minor injuries when their single-engine plane ran out of fuel and was forced to land there. [3]
Police Lt. Marie Romo said the plane, registered to Genesis One Inc. in Paramus, landed around noon, when the mall was crowded with customers drawn to back-to-school sales. [2]
It came to a stop, nose-down, in a lot between a J.C. Penney department store and a Toys-R-Us store at the Rockaway Townsquare mall in Rockaway Township, a northern New Jersey suburb about 40 miles west of New York City. [1]
The single-engine Cessna 172 took off from Caldwell Airport and later went down near the JC Penney store in the Rockaway Townsquare Mall around noon. [4]
The single-engine Cessna 172 had recently taken off from nearby Essex County Airport in Caldwell when the pilot reported a rough-running engine, said Arlene Salac, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration. [3]
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[1] Small Plane Lands In NJ Mall Parking Lot - News Story - WPTZ Plattsburgh
[2] Witness: Small plane crash-lands in New Jersey mall parking lot; pilot …
[3] Witness: Plane Crash Lands at N.J. Mall - CBS News
[4] Plane Crashes In Rockaway
[5] Pilot, passenger survive as small plane crashes at Rockaway Townsquare …
[6] Small Plane Lands At Rockaway Townsquare Mall - WTIC