Posted on 05/25/2012 5:03:07 PM PDT by CedarDave
SANTA FE – A private plane carrying Gov. Susana Martinez and her husband, Chuck Franco, landed at Santa Fe Municipal Airport without its landing gear down Wednesday night, but there were no injuries, the governor’s spokesman said.
Matt Chandler, district attorney for the 9th Judicial District, also was on board, but was not injured, said spokesman Scott Darnell.
The emergency landing took place at about 10 p.m.
The governor was returning from a campaign event in Tucumcari for Republican state Senate candidate Angie Spears. The Spears campaign paid for the flight, Darnell said.
Speaking for the first time since the incident about 10 p.m. Wednesday, Martinez said she initially thought a tire had blown on the plane’s landing gear.
“It wasn’t scary, in the sense that we didn’t realize what had happened until it happened,” Martinez told reporters after a childhood reading event in Española this morning. “The plane was not destroyed — nothing was broken off or flew off.”
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I’m grateful everyone is OK.
Any landing that you can walk away from is a good landing. If you can reuse the airplane it is a great landing.
I bet she takes the choo-choo from now on.
I was going to post that I’m glad no one was hurt, but DL already said it for me.
;-)
I’d hate to lose Susana.
Thanks for the ping Dave. Sounds frightening!
Yikes!!!! I hit the post button ONCE I swear!
I just assumed you were very, VERY grateful
Glad the Governor, crew etc is OK......
Just glad it didn’t come to this.
This is the story of the poor dizzy blonde flying in a two-seater airplane with just the pilot.
He has a heart attack and dies. She, frantic, calls out a May Day.
“May Day! May Day! Help me! Help me! My pilot had a heart attack and is dead.
And I don’t know how to fly. Help me! Please help me!”
She hears a voice over the radio saying:
“This is Air Traffic Control and I have you loud and clear. I will talk you through this and
get you back on the ground. I’ve had a lot of experience with this kind of problem.
‘Now, just take a deep breath. Everything will be fine! Now give me your height and position.”
She says, “I’m 5’4” and I’m in the front seat.”
“O.K.” says the voice on the radio....
“Repeat after me: Our Father. . Who art in Heaven. . . ....”
LOL!
Cute! Lol!
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