Low on fuel, small plane lands safely on Orange Beach shorelineA small airplane that tows advertising banners along the Gulf Coast made an emergency landing on a public beach in Orange Beach when it ran low on gas late Wednesday morning, one of the airplane's owners said.
The 1973 Bellanca's landed on the hard-packed sand beside Perdido Beach Boulevard shortly after 11 a.m., said Assistant Police Chief Greg Duck. The pair inside the plane had been "joy riding" and were not at work pulling advertising, said Don Bonner, an owner of Foley's Gulf Coast Aerial Advertising Inc., which owns the aircraft.
The pilot was low on gas and made a precautionary landing about five miles short of the nearby Jack Edwards Airport, Bonner said. Police and firefighters arrived on scene to ensure no beachgoers were endangered, Duck said.
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