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Angel Flight Emergency Landing


What: Houston to Decatur
Where: Decatur Municipal Airport
When: Sept 6 2012, 10:30 a.m.
Who: 4 aboard
Why: No one was injured when Pilot Mark Moran made a hard landing in Decatur when returning a passenger from cancer treatment and surgery. Moran is an Angel Flight program pilot, providing free flights to sick people who cannot afford their treatments. Moran came in too fast and would have performed a go round but he didn’t feel he had enough lift to make it over powerlines at the end of the runway. He veered left off the end of the runway through a barbed wire fence. Fire crews sprayed down the leaked fuel.

(unconfirmed)

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