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Icing Forces Plane To Make Emergency Landing At Jamestown Airport

Chautauqua County-Jamestown Airport. P-J file photo

No injuries were reported Wednesday after icing concerns forced a Cessna 182 Skylane to make an emergency landing at Chautauqua County-Jamestown Airport.

The pilot of the four-seat, single-engine aircraft reported having a problem, and firefighters from numerous departments were summoned to the town of Ellicott airport. However, the plane landed without incident around noon, and first responders were told to stand down.

It wasn’t immediately clear how many people were in the plane.

A Chautauqua County spokesman later confirmed to The Post-Journal that the plane began experiencing icing on its wings mid-flight, which forced the plane to reroute to Jamestown.

“There were no injuries as a result of the emergency landing,” the county spokesman said.

According to aviation trackers, the privately owned Cessna 182 Skylane took off around 9 a.m. Wednesday from an airport in Norwood, Mass., and was headed to Lansing Municipal Airport south of Chicago when the problem arose.

Records show that the plane left Chautauqua County-Jamestown Airport on Thursday morning and finished its planned route to Illinois.

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