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A wild scene Monday on Miramar Beach after a pilot made an emergency landing on the sandy beach.
According to multiple witnesses, there were hundreds of people on the beach at the time of the emergency landing. Miraculously, there were no reported injuries.
“I was sitting on the beach and the plane was coming down,” Bob Redmond, a Miramar Beach local, said. “I was looking at it, and I wasn’t sure at first… You know, I saw it was getting low. And then I thought maybe it was going to be one of those sightseeing things where they dip and, you know, do some kind of… but it kept coming down. And once it got to the rooflines, he was kind of heading right towards me. I was right there. And I jumped up, and then I started yelling ‘woah woah woah! He’s going to crash! He’s going to crash!’ It was very… surreal.”
Others said this isn’t quite what they imagined when they came down for a beach getaway.
“We were sitting on the beach over there, and all of a sudden, we heard something like the wind,” Scott Cooper, visiting from Kansas, said. “We turned around and the plane was just landing right behind us. And uh, we were a little bit shocked, honestly.”
“When I was out there swimming, I actually [saw] the plane fly by, that’s all I [saw],” local Alex Eaton said. “He was real low, and he was coming back this way. I think he may have turned around and come back this way. And I didn’t think anything of it, I’m like ‘oh well, another plane flying real low.’ I didn’t realize that he landed.”
Paul Mikhaylyuk said he was at the shore with his young daughter when the plane landed just yards away from them.
“There was like, hundreds of people along the beach but this part was wide open. Nobody was there. I mean.. he really threaded the needle,” Mikhaylyuk said. “As long as everyone’s okay, that’s all that matters.”
According to a Facebook post by the Walton County Sheriff’s Office, the aircraft had to make a sudden landing due to an engine failure reported through Eglin Tower. There is no word yet on when the plane will be removed.
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