What: Rented single engine Piper Cherokee from the Piseco Lake Airport in the southern Adirondacks around 1:00 Friday afternoon, headed home to Cherry Hill.
Where: Directed by control tower to (emergency) land at Albany International Airport
When: Friday afternoon 2:30 pm
Who: Stephans family of Cherry Hill: Dad Jim, wife and two kids
Why: Thumping on the left side of the plane... landing gear assembly, which later fell off in the woods near the airport.
Update
The pilot (Jim Stephans) said : “Basically had to get the plane to just above stall speed and then hold it there and keep the plane on one wheel as long as I could to allow me to slow the plane and slide into the grass.”
Officials said Stephans did a good job of landing in the first 1000 feet of the runway and sliding off the runway. The plane landed with barely any damage -- no real damage to the plane, no damage to the people in it.
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