Actor Patrick Swayze Unhurt in Emergency Landing of Plane

A small plane piloted by actor Patrick Swayze made an emergency landing and clipped a wing on an empty street in central Arizona on Thursday. Swayze was not injured.

Swayze was flying a 1978 twin-engine Cessna 414A from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, N.M., when he was forced to make an emergency landing, said John Clabes, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

Sgt. P.J. Janik, a spokesman for the Prescott Valley police, said the plane landed on a paved street in a housing development under construction in this town 90 miles north of Phoenix. As it landed, the plane hit a light pole and sheared off a four-foot section of its right wing, he said.

Swayze’s spokeswoman Annett Wolf in Los Angeles confirmed that Swayze had made an emergency landing and that he was not seriously hurt. She said Swayze has a home in northern New Mexico, but declined further comment.

Clabes said Swayze was the only person aboard the aircraft.

Swayze, 47, has starred in several movies, including “Ghost,” a hit that cast him alongside Demi Moore, and “Dirty Dancing,” the 1987 movie that made him a star.