{"id":185246,"date":"2025-12-10T18:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/185246\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:11:07","slug":"airplane-makes-emergency-landing-in-carrigeen-pilot-and-passenger-escape-uninjured-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/185246\/","title":{"rendered":"Airplane makes emergency landing in Carrigeen; Pilot and passenger escape uninjured &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A non-fatal emergency landing occurred in Carrigeen, Co. Kilkenny, on the afternoon of Wednesday, December 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The plane was registered as EI-DDX, with the flight route titled AFZ10R.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As a courtesy, rescue 117 crew brought the pilot and passenger back to Waterford Airport in their helicopter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Information from an online flight tracker shows the plane took flight around 9:24 am before going offline above Clonmel at 12:26 pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The plane was a Cessna 172S Skyhawk SP, a four-seat, single-engine aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A screenshot from a flight radar tracker shows a coast guard helicopter circling the scene, having left Waterford Airport at 1:14 pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In a statement to the Waterford News &amp; Star, Atlantic Flight Training Academy said: &#8220;A Cessna 172 was routing back on a routine training flight towards Waterford when the pilot experienced a rough-running engine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;He informed Air Traffic Control in Waterford and advised that he had identified a suitable landing site in close proximity. The pilot positioned the aircraft for landing and carried out a precautionary landing in a suitable grass field, in accordance with standard operation procedures, north of Waterford Airport. There were no injuries to either the instructor or the student.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Further details to follow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3823891_7_articleinline_Screenshot_2025-12-10_131901.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of Waterford's Coast Guard's flight path.\" title=\"A screenshot of Waterford's Coast Guard's flight path.\" class=\"card-img\"\/>A screenshot of Waterford&#8217;s Coast Guard&#8217;s flight path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A non-fatal emergency landing occurred in Carrigeen, Co. Kilkenny, on the afternoon of Wednesday, December 10. The plane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-185246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}