PHOENIX — A small plane made an emergency landing on a school playground at a west Phoenix elementary school Wednesday, but no one was hurt.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said a single-engine Cessna 152 with a flight instructor and student on board left nearby Glendale Municipal Airport for a practice flight Wednesday morning. The instructor reported that the plane had a rough-running engine and that he didn’t think they could make it back to the airport.
Gregor said the plane apparently hit a chain-link fence at Villa de Paz Elementary School while trying to land on the empty playground at 9:30 a.m. Television images show the plane ended up with its nose stuck into the grass just feet from a jungle gym and nearby classrooms. Both pilots walked away, and no one on the ground was injured.
