OCEANSIDE, Calif. — The owner of a plane that police said was carrying cocaine when it made an emergency landing Thursday says the aircraft had run out of fuel.
Tom Fries is the registered owner of the four-seater Piper Cherokee that landed on State Road 76 near Canyon Drive in Oceanside around 1:45 a.m. Thursday.
He told Team 10 an FAA investigator informed him the fuel tanks on the plane, which he leases out to Plus One Flyer, had run dry. He said he didn’t have any other information…