Mon. UPDATE: Manahawkin Man Flying Plane is Commercial Pilot
No injuries to pilot or passenger when plane lands on Bay Head beach
A Manahawkin man used his professional piloting experience to land a small, rented plane on a Bay Head beach as it rapidly lost power Sunday afternoon, police said on Monday. Christopher McMenamy, 31, who is a commercial pilot flying DC-10s, had rented the Cessna Skyhawk II from an airport in Princeton, said Bay Head Lt. Geoff Barger. McMenamy was shooting aerial photography before he had engine trouble and landed on the beach near East Avenue and Johnson Street at about 3:40 p.m., said Barger. "He had to land somewhere and glided onto the beach as best he could," Barger said. The pilot and his passenger, whose name is not available, were not injured, Barger said. The plane was moved south down the beach to Williams Place and then onto …
Robert M Cyr
7:48 pm on Thursday, December 27, 2012
I witnessed the the whole thing and give credit to the excellent job the pilot did. He landed that plane in the only open area that had no people between me and another group further south. If it wasn't for the cinder block he hit that made him flip it would have been a perfect no engine landing. more ›