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Cessna flips at Fallbrook Airpark, pilot walks away unscathed

A Cessna 182 flipped over when it overshot the runway at the Fallbrook Community Airpark on Sunday, January 3, but the pilot walked away from the accident unharmed.

According to Sheriff’s Sergeant David Gilmore, Michael Fuqua was flying the single engine airplane into the Airpark at approximately 11:15 a.m.

Fuqua overshot the landing strip at the airpark, said Gilmore, and landed on the soft dirt at the end of the runway, and flipped the plane.

According to an Airpark official, the Fallbrook airpark runway “is on the smaller side, but it is not difficult to land onto.”

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