Airplane Moved Off of Golf Course

HOUSTON - A small Cessna aircraft has been moved off the Hermann Park golf course the day after veteran pilot Brendon Ford was forced to make an emergency landing on Monday night. The airplane is no longer a hazard on the 11th fairway and has become a temporary tourist attraction.

Ford, a resident of Weimar, was flying to Columbus, Texas from Lafayette, Louisiana. The manual gauges on the Cessna reflected that it had enough fuel, but the engine started to sputter. Ford, who is not familiar with the area, had less than two minutes to find a place to land the plane.

"It was almost 6 o'clock at night and every highway or every road around here is full of cars. The golf course has several good fairways that even if it had been a crashing landing, it would have been surviveable and nobody else would have gotten hurt."

It turned out to be an impromptu picture perfect landing on the fairway. One lone golfer was putting as Brendon set the aircraft down and walked away without a scratch.

When asked by FOX 26 reporter Pattie Shieh if he is a golfer, an unflappable Ford replied, "No, I'm not a golfer. Why would you play golf? You could get hit by an airplane out here."

Ford has plans to get a trailer and move the aircraft out of the parking lot, hopefully by Tuesday night.