Small plane makes emergency landing on beach in Ocean City

Plane on Beach
Photo credit Ocean City Police

OCEAN CITY, NJ. (KYW Newsradio) -- A small, single-engine plane made an emergency landing on the beach in Ocean City, New Jersey on Saturday morning.

Ocean City Police say the beach was empty when the plane landed on sand at 49th Street around 8:30 a.m.

Well that's a first for me....A small plane had to make an emergency landing on the beach in Ocean City, NJ around 8:30 this morning. Luckily the beach was pretty much empty because of how early it was. The pilot wasn't injured @KYWNewsradio pic.twitter.com/58yiKM22b3

— Dan Wing (@dwingReports) June 1, 2019

The pilot was the only person on-board, and he was not injured. The plane did sustain some minor damage. 

Police blocked off a section of the beach as the FAA investigated what happened.