A pilot and passenger were arrested after narcotics were found aboard a plane that ran out of gas and was forced to land on a highway in Oceanside, police said.
Two people aboard a single-engine plane that ran out of gas and was forced to land on a highway in Oceanside early Thursday were arrested after narcotics were found in the plane, police said. The aircraft, a 1976 Piper PA-28-235, made an emergency landing near Canyon Drive on Highway 76 — a popular route that runs east-west through the North County region of San Diego County — about 1:45 a.m., Oceanside police said.
and was expected to land at the Bob Maxwell Memorial Airfield in Oceanside just after 2 a.m., according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website. The pilot reported engine issues just before landing on the highway, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. But the plane's owner said the issue was actually much simpler. Thomas Fries, whose aviation and consulting company Lead Turn owns the plane, told The Times that the aircraft had run out of gas.
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