A small propeller airplane on a training flight out of Pearson Field Airport made an emergency landing at about 4:50 p.m. Saturday on state Highway 14, westbound at Milepost 3 near downtown Vancouver.
Nobody was injured and the airplane was moved onto the right shoulder of the road almost immediately. State police and Clark Country Sheriff’s deputies were on hand within minutes. The right lane of the highway was partially blocked.
“We don’t need any medical assistance. Everybody’s fine,” was heard on the emergency scanner in The Columbian newsroom.
The airplane was a fixed-wing, single-engine Cessna 150L, manufactured in 1973, according to a Federal Aviation Administration aircraft registry. Two males — an instructor and a student — were inside, according to Washington State Patrol Trooper Will Finn.
