Plane Pilot Relieved After Making Emergency Landing on Popular New Jersey Beach

A small single-engine Cessna plane survives an emergency landing in Ocean City, N.J., on June 1, 2019. Ocean City Police Department via AP

A pilot is glad to be alive after his small plane had to make an emergency landing along New Jersey’s coastline on June 1.

Ocean City Police confirmed a single-engine Cessna landed on an “empty beach” on the Jersey Shore near 49th Street at about 8:35 a.m. local time.