A teenage pilot who successfully landed her small plane after losing a wheel on her firstever solo flight said she "freaked out a little bit" after someone on the ground radioed she'd lost the landing gear. "I got really scared, nervous, obviously," she told ABC News. "I had done emergency procedures before, but you don't do them if you lose a wheel. No one really thinks that's going to happen to them. And I mean, I was all by myself so I was just terrified."
Maggie Taraska, 17, was on her first solo crosscountry flight at her local airport in Beverly, Massachusetts, headed for Portland, Maine, when the possible disaster unfolded.

It was no less scary for her mother, an Air Force veteran, who was on the ground watching.
“It's nervewracking to see your kid up there and you're helpless and just hoping for the best that everything would work out,” Christine Taraska told ABC News in a phone interview.
“I knew it was a dangerous situation. So I was nervous.”
Her daughter, who had been flying for three years, was attempting her first crosscountry solo flight when the right main wheel of her small aircraft broke away.
Taraska said that it was only a few minutes after her daughter’s singleengine Piper PA28 took off from the Beverly Regional Airport when the part broke off. Luckily, a pilot on the ground spotted the broken part fall off the plane.
“It was probably less than five minutes. Because there was an airplane on the ground that saw the part fall off,” she said. “That airplane contacted the tower and then the tower contacted Maggie. So it was probably less than five minutes.”
The reporters wanted to know how she managed to keep her cool and land the plane.

“I think I panicked a little, just less than most people would," she responded with a laugh, according to Boston ABC affiliate WCVB.
When the part fell from the plane, the pilot on the ground reported it to the control tower, which contacted Taraska in the sky.
Air traffic control contacted her instructor, John Singleton, who assisted her through radio to overcome the challenging landing situation.
“Maggie, this is John. How are you doing?” Singleton could be heard asking through radio traffic, according to WCVB.
“I'm OK,” Taraska replied.
“OK, you're doing a great job flying the airplane,” Singleton responded. “Keep doing what you're doing. We're going to take our time here. We've got plenty of time. You have plenty of fuel. We've got plenty of daylight."
"So just try to relax, and you always heard me say, 'Go back to basics,' so we're going to work the basics here as much as possible, OK?” John asked.
17yearold Maggie Taraska took off from Beverly Regional Airport
On her first solo flight ever....heading for Portland, Maine.
After logging more than 60 hours of flight training
She knew that something didn't feel quite right
And that feeling was confirmed when she was contacted by air traffic control
With the news that the plane's right wheel had fallen off (of her singleengine Piper PA28)!!
Although the next 35 minutes of circling the runway were harrowing to say the least,
Maggie "stuck" her landing and walked away from the damaged plane unscathed!
Talk about grace under pressure!
Thanks to some timely radiocoaching from her longtime instructor John Singleton
And some solid flyingDNA (Maggie’s dad is a pilot and both parents are former Air Force intelligence officers)
Maggie apparently made the landing look easy!
At the start of her senior year last fall, Maggie was considering Air Force Academy
And a possible career as a fighter pilot!
We hope to hear from Maggie soon with an update. 5 seconds clip added from    • Student Pilot CrashLands After Losin...  

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⏰ Events in the video ⏰

00:02 Intro
01:30 Runway lineup
01:50 Wheel falls off
03: 00 Circling continues