17-year-old student pilot lands plane without landing gear

Pilot: Maggie Taraska She had just taken off on her first solo flight in a single-engine Piper PA-28 Warrior from Beverly Regional Airport in Massachusetts. •The plane's right main wheel fell off shortly after takeoff. • Despite the emergency, Maggie circled the airport for the next half-hour as her flight instructor and air traffic controllers coached her through the situation. Her instructor reassured her saying, "You're doing a great job flying the airplane. Keep doing what you're doing. We've got plenty of time, you've got plenty of fuel, we've got plenty of daylight." With her instructor's guidance, Maggie landed the plane perfectly and walked away unscathed Maggie later shared that she was initially terrified when she learned the wheel was missing, but she knew she had to fly the plane. "I panicked a little bit, but you have to have confidence in your ability," she said

That time a man reached for a stuck landing gear on his friend's plane from a sunroof of a car driven down a runway and fixed it. [St. Augustine airport, Florida, 1985]

Maggie Taraska interview post this incident

📢📢Context/Details 📢📢 Sep 9, 2018, Massachusetts Maggie Taraska, a 17-year-old student pilot from Massachusetts, landed a plane without landing gear on September 9, 2018, at Beverly Regional Airport. The plane lost its right main wheel shortly after taking off for her first solo cross-country flight to Portland, Maine. Taraska safely landed the plane. She was supposed to fly from Beverly to Portland, Maine. Her trip changed immediately when the plane lost its right main wheel shortly after taking off. "As soon as I took off, basically, I heard something," Taraska said to Boston News 25. "I just felt something was wrong instinctively." "I got really scared, nervous, obviously," she said, according to an ABC News article. "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." Taraska who succeeded in landing in a dangerous situation said she hopes to go to the U.S. Air Force Academy -- like both her parents. "I remember the last time I really looked at the altimeter it was like 400 feet," Taraska told ABC News. "And I realized, 'I'm going to touch down. Either way, it's going to be good, it's going to be bad. I'm going to be on the ground.'" Source 📣 hope this was informative 📣

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They were both calm and handled this scary situation very well. She will make a great pilot!