Student PILOT Lands Without Wheel | Teen Pilot on Solo Flight performs Emergency Landing

A teenage pilot who successfully landed her small plane after losing a wheel on her first-ever solo flight said she "freaked out a little bit" after someone on the ground radioed she'd lost the landing gear. "I got really scared, nervous, obviously," she told ABC News. "I had done emergency procedures before, but you don't do them if you lose a wheel. No one really thinks that's going to happen to them. And I mean, I was all by myself so I was just terrified." Maggie Taraska, 17, was on her first solo cross-country flight at her local airport in Beverly, Massachusetts, headed for Portland, Maine, when the possible disaster unfolded. It was no less scary for her mother, an Air Force veteran, who was on the ground watching. “It's nerve-wracking to see your kid up there and you're helpless and just hoping for the best that everything would work out,” Christine Taraska told ABC News in a phone interview. “I knew it was a dangerous situation. So I was nervous.” Her daughter, who had been flying for three years, was attempting her first cross-country solo flight when the right main wheel of her small aircraft broke away. Taraska said that it was only a few minutes after her daughter’s single-engine Piper PA28 took off from the Beverly Regional Airport when the part broke off. Luckily, a pilot on the ground spotted the broken part fall off the plane. “It was probably less than five minutes. Because there was an airplane on the ground that saw the part fall off,” she said. “That airplane contacted the tower and then the tower contacted Maggie. So it was probably less than five minutes.” The reporters wanted to know how she managed to keep her cool and land the plane. “I think I panicked a little, just less than most people would," she responded with a laugh, according to Boston ABC affiliate WCVB. When the part fell from the plane, the pilot on the ground reported it to the control tower, which contacted Taraska in the sky. Air traffic control contacted her instructor, John Singleton, who assisted her through radio to overcome the challenging landing situation. “Maggie, this is John. How are you doing?” Singleton could be heard asking through radio traffic, according to WCVB. “I'm OK,” Taraska replied. “OK, you're doing a great job flying the airplane,” Singleton responded. “Keep doing what you're doing. We're going to take our time here. We've got plenty of time. You have plenty of fuel. We've got plenty of daylight." "So just try to relax, and you always heard me say, 'Go back to basics,' so we're going to work the basics here as much as possible, OK?” John asked. 17-year-old Maggie Taraska took off from Beverly Regional Airport On her first solo flight ever....heading for Portland, Maine. After logging more than 60 hours of flight training She knew that something didn't feel quite right And that feeling was confirmed when she was contacted by air traffic control With the news that the plane's right wheel had fallen off (of her single-engine Piper PA28)!! Although the next 35 minutes of circling the runway were harrowing to say the least, Maggie "stuck" her landing and walked away from the damaged plane unscathed! Talk about grace under pressure! Thanks to some timely radio-coaching from her long-time instructor John Singleton And some solid flying-DNA (Maggie’s dad is a pilot and both parents are former Air Force intelligence officers) Maggie apparently made the landing look easy! At the start of her senior year last fall, Maggie was considering Air Force Academy And a possible career as a fighter pilot! We hope to hear from Maggie soon with an update. 5 seconds clip added from /watch/UZNxECRotU-ox Join this channel to get access to perks: ___________________________________________________________ /channel/UC8zI2WDaJ_mMWsbnaeGvEYA/join ___________________________________________________________ Aviator sunglasses - https://amzn.to/3kuaw1z BEST AVIATION MOVIES Sully - https://amzn.to/37OPQfv Flight 93 - https://amzn.to/3uvOqAf Air Strike - https://amzn.to/2O0CjKN Flight - https://amzn.to/3aQscBc Flight 313: The Conspiracy - https://amzn.to/3aQJ0rA Captain Phillips - https://amzn.to/3aQJ0rA RESOURCES Donations can be made at Black Health Alliance: https://bit.ly/2Ap7h8Z Justice for Breonna Taylor Petition: https://bit.ly/2BXJEVd Justice for Ahmaud Arbery Petition: https://bit.ly/2Y1f5qd All subscriptions are very appreciated! STAY CONNECTED Like us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/broed2020 Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/Broed2020 Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/broed2020/ #studentpilot #emergencylanding #studentpilotlandswithoutwheel #MaggieTaraska #piperwarrior #emergencybellylanding #JohnSingleton #wheelsoff #airplaneemergency #landing ⏰ Events in the video ⏰ 00:02 - Intro 01:30 - Runway lineup 01:50 - Wheel falls off 03: 00 - Circling continues

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