A 24-year-old San Luis Obispo resident made an emergency landing
at the Hollister Municipal Airport when his small plane experienced
engine troubles Wednesday morning.
Hollister – A 24-year-old San Luis Obispo resident made an emergency landing at the Hollister Municipal Airport when his small plane experienced engine troubles Wednesday morning.
Nick Brake landed at about 9:45am Wednesday after an engine in the plane he was flying started sputtering and powering down about eight miles southeast of Hollister’s airport. Brake was on his way from San Jose’s Reid-Hillview Airport to his home in San Luis Obispo. He ended up maintaining an emergency landing pattern for about 90 minutes, he said.
Brake did not know precisely what happened with the engine, but he said he had intermittent power and had to throttle the engine to stay airborne.
“I had enough power to maintain altitude and I waited for the fog to burn off,” Brake said.
The pilot, flying a borrowed two-seater Cessna 150 with a 100 horsepower, single Continental engine, said the emergency landing was his first. He had about 120 hours of flight experience and said he was shaken Wednesday morning, but not enough to stay out of the sky.
“I’ll be back up as soon as the plane gets checked out,” Brake said.
