TOWN OF MAMAKATING – A single engine plane used to tow gliders flipped on landing, when one of the wheels broke on landing at Wurtsboro Airport Sunday afternoon.
The preliminary investigation indicated that that the Cessna L19, had just completed a tow and was returning to the airport to pick up another glider. When the plane touched down on the runway, it rolled for approximately 100 feet when one of the landing gear wheels broke off. The aircraft then flipped once, coming to rest upside down on the runway.
The pilot, David Freer, Jr of Highland, NY, was extricated and taken to Orange Regional Medical Center in Middletown with non-life threatening injuries.
The FAA and NTSB were notified and ordered the aircraft removed for examination. Responding to the scene with the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office was the Wurtsboro Fire Department, Mamakating Ambulance Corps and State Police.
The incident remains under investigation.
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