well on my way home from work on my way to pick up my daughter from after school care i was listing to the news and hear about a small plane land at a school... as they go on and say the location i start to freak out and then the confirmation it was at my daughter's school... there is a small airport in the area.... i was like wtf i did not even get a call.. so we pull in the back parking lot to get her and there are the camera crews and i see the fence that the plane hit... its funny cause there is a huge grass area just west of where he landed and he had to hit the fence right next to the building good thing everyone is ok and it was not a real threat to the school or kids and at a time they were not outside....


http://www.ktar.com/index...id=1123408

PHOENIX -- A small plane with engine trouble landed on a school playground in west Phoenix Wednesday. No one was hurt.

About 900 students were inside Villa De Paz Elementary School when the plane made the emergency landing and tipped over on its nose about 9:30 a.m. The pilot and his student walked away.

"From my understanding, there were no children in danger," said Phoenix Police Sgt. Tommy Thompson. "There's a little berm right there, as it went over that berm, it went thrugh some fence and it landed, so it looks worse than it actually is."

Police said the pilot and flight student were trying to return to Glendale Airport when when their trouble began.

"They spotted a large tract of land here that was open, it happened to be the playground area of the school," Thompson said.

Kathy Welsh, principal of the school near 103rd Avenue and Camelback Road, said everyone was fortunate.

"The pilots didn't hit anything, they didn't hit anything. They didn't hit any buildings, they didn't hit any areas where the kids play," Welsh said.

She added, "It's like we're blessed, because everything was just right, so nobody got hurt. Nobody was even in danger of getting hurt with where it is. There were no students, no adults out there."

She added, "This is amazing. Nothing like this has ever happened, nothing like this has ever happened."

The students were evacuated after the incident and were allowed to go home if their parents picked them up.

One of the younger students, Austin Johnson, said, "I watched a plane crash."

Joe Johnson, who picked up his young son, commented, "It's a trip."

Police said the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash.

Wow !

I bet your daughter was excited! whew! not something that happens every day

She wasnt that freaked out about it actually. We are just pissed that we did not recieve any phone calls about it.

she was acutally excited and wish she was able to see when the plan was there... she was kinda confused on why the news trucks were still there

Glad she is ok

Crazy!

Glad everyone is okay!

glad to hear everything is ok with you and her