Small Private Plane, Out of Gas, Lands Safely in Empty Lot
A small plane landed just short of the runway at the Fullerton Municipal Airport on Saturday after it ran out of fuel, officials said.
The pilot managed to set the single-engine Cessna 210 down in an empty lot about 1,000 yards from the runway, near the intersection of Moore Avenue and Burning Tree Road, airport officials said. Neither the pilot nor a second man aboard the plane was injured in the 6:45 p.m. incident.
“They were flying from the Grand Canyon to Fullerton, but they didn’t quite make it,” Airport Director Roland Elder said. “They landed between some truck trailers and some railroad tracks in a little dirt lot at the back of an industrial park.”
Elder said both men are pilots who make frequent flights out of Fullerton. They asked that their names not be released, he said.
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