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Cessna Makes Emergency Landing At KMKC
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-- A single-engine plane made an emergency landing at the Charles Wheeler Downtown Airport in Kansas City late Wednesday afternoon after reporting landing gear failure. (www.kmbc.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Here is the flight: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/FLX720
Something makes absolutely no sense. Article says he was flying from Dodge City to Liberal but went to KC for proper equipment. That's 300 miles and passing Wichta, Salina and Topeka, besides dropping South into Oklahoma or Texas.
MKC is Flight Express's home base. Most of their pilots will opt to return home with a gear issue than be stranded elsewhere, as long as they have the fuel onboard to do so.
I found that kind of weird too. Looking at the activity log on FlightAware, I noticed that it originally said it was going from Dodge City to Wichita before being diverted to Kansas City.
Well, that makes more sense
Flight Express has a base there, that is probably why he went there.