Crime & Safety

Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Guerneville

No one hurt in incident late Monday.

A single-engine Cessna 150G plane made an emergency landing on
River Road in Guerneville in west Sonoma County around 7 p.m. Monday because of an unspecified mechanical problem, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said this afternoon.

Neither of the two people on board was injured and the plane was not damaged, spokesman Ian Gregor said.

The fixed-wing, four-cycle, single-engine plane is registered to Mary S. Fairbanks of Rackerby in Yuba County.

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The plane landed on River Road near the Korbel Champagne Cellars
at 13250 River Road. It remained parked overnight on an access road off River Road, the California Highway Patrol said.

The FAA is investigating the cause of the mechanical problem, Gregor said.

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By Bay City News Service.


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