Pilots Decide Against Moving Cuomo’s Plane
The aging state airplane that made an emergency landing with Gov. Mario M. Cuomo aboard ran into problems again Monday when pilots decided not to take it up because they didn’t like the way it was handling.
Department of Environmental Conservation pilots had planned to take the Grumman Gulfstream G1 from an airport near Mountoursville, Pa., where it stopped Sunday because of an electrical malfunction, to Delaware for repairs, officials said.
When the turboprop taxied onto the runway for takeoff, the pilots decided to return it to the hangar.
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