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Pellston Regional Airport (IATA: PLN, ICAO: KPLN, FAA LID: PLN), also known as Pellston Regional Airport of Emmet County, is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) northwest of the central business district of Pellston, a village in Emmet County, Michigan, United States. [2]
The probable cause was found to be the student pilot's improper flare which resulted in a hard landing. [21] On March 27, 2012, a Cessna 441 Conquest departed from Battle Creek with a tow bar still attached to its landing gear. It was found a ground maintenance technician had declined to remove it after towing the plane out of the hangar.
Pellston is a village in Emmet County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 822 at the 2010 census. The village is the home of Pellston Regional Airport. The village lies on the boundary between Maple River and McKinley townships on US Highway 31. Interstate 75 is about 10 miles (16 km) east of Pellston.
The crash landing sites themselves are of interest to space archeology. Luna 1 , not itself a lunar orbiter, was the first spacecraft designed as an impactor . It failed to hit the Moon in 1959, however, thus inadvertently becoming the first man-made object to leave geocentric orbit and enter a heliocentric orbit , where it remains.
Reuther's chartered Learjet had departed Detroit for Pellston, Michigan, from which he was planning to travel to the UAW's new training facility at Onaway. While making its approach to Pellston's airport in a rainstorm, the jet clipped a tree top and crashed in the woods about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the runway, killing all six people aboard.
This is a list of airports in Michigan (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA, or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
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Post-landing inspections revealed damage to the firewall, cabin floor, and lower fuselage skin. The probable cause was found to be the pilot's misjudgment of the landing flare and improper recovery from the bounced landing. [21] On March 17, 2013, a Cessna 172 Skyhawk was involved in an accident while taxiing at Oakland County Airport. The ...