It won’t go down as historic an emergency landing as Chesley Sullenberger bringing in a passenger jet on the Hudson River in New York.
But 17-year-old Sierra Lund did land her Cessna 150 safely last week on the Planterra Ridge Golf Club in Peachtree City when she had engine trouble.
Her first reaction was to call her father.
“Dad, I just crashed the airplane,” Kevin Lund, Sierra’s father, told Channel 2 Action News of how his daughter broke the news about the incident.
The student pilot took off from Atlanta Regional Airport in Peachtree City and was flying at an altitude of 400 feet when the engine started sputtering, Channel 2 reported.
“It made a really weird sound, then it just quit,” Sierra Lund recalled. “When I started losing airspeed, I knew I had to put it down somewhere.”
That turned out to be on the 11th fairway at Planterra Ridge.
“They saw me coming,” she said of the golfers.
Steph Lund, Sierra's mother, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently that Sierra's incident would not be an obstacle to further flying.
“The first thing she said when her dad arrived was, ‘I need to finish my cross country!’ This did not shake her confidence and she will be back up today.”
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