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Belly flopped
Pilot okay after rough landing
 | | Easy does it COURTESY PHOTO BY RORY HAMMOND A crane lifts a single-engine airplane off the Mustang Beach Airport runway at about 7 p.m. Monday, March 17, after the pilot made an inadvertent wheels-up landing. The pilot, Dr. John Lasher of Amarillo, was unhurt; police say the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the accident. |
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The pilot of a single-engine plane was uninjured on Monday, March 17, after he belly-landed the plane at Mustang Beach Airport in Port Aransas.
Police Sgt. Terry Syler said the pilot, Dr. John Lasher, of Amarillo, landed the plane with its landing gear up at about 6:51 p.m.
The plane, a 2003 Lancair IV-P, was later lifted off the runway by a crane and put in a hangar at the airport. The aircraft is listed as amateur built and experimental.
Mark Creighton, a Port Aransas pilot, said he had sold Dr. Lasher a hangar some time ago. Because he's the only person in Port Aransas that Lasher knows, he's the one Lasher called first, Creighton said. He said Lasher told him he was unhurt in the accident, but needed help getting the plane off the runway.
Syler said Port Aransas police had filed no charges in the incident, but he added that the Federal Aviation Administration is also investigating it.
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