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Chariton, Iowa-bound turkey hunters make emergency landing on Lake Michigan beach; PHOTO
GARY, Ind. (AP) - A small, single-engine plane traveling from Michigan to Iowa made a safe emergency landing on a Lake Michigan beach after having engine trouble.
The four people on the plane weren't hurt in the landing Thursday evening on Gary's Miller Beach.
Passenger Marshall Johnson told the Post-Tribune of Merrillville that the plane's oil temperature gauge shot up and the engine started to sputter as they flew west from Jackson, Mich.
Johnson says his son Luke Johnson was flying the plane and found a spot without people on the beach to land after realizing he couldn't reach the Gary airport about seven miles away.
The group was traveling to Chariton, Iowa, for a turkey hunting trip.
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.
Emergency personnel and spectators gather around a small single engine plane on the beach in the Miller section of Gary, Ind. on Thursday, April 15, 2010. Pilot Lucas Johnson and three others aboard were heading to Iowa from Michigan when they experienced engine trouble over Lake Michigan. (AP Photo/Post-Tribune, Jeffrey D. Nicholls)
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