Cuomo’s Plane Forced to Land
An airplane carrying New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo to the governors’ convention in Michigan made an emergency landing Sunday after a warning light indicated that one of the aircraft’s engines was on fire.
The Grumman G-1 propjet landed safely with one engine functioning at the Albany County Airport. The 10 passengers and two pilots were not injured.
The 22-year-old aircraft, owned by the state and used by Cuomo and other top officials on business, was about 20 minutes into a flight from Albany to Traverse City, Mich., when a light in the cockpit indicated a fire in the right-wing engine. The pilots turned the engine off and turned the plane back toward the Albany airport.
Cuomo was en route to Michigan for Sunday’s session of the National Governors’ Assn. summer conference.
Officials were investigating why the warning light went on.
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