Plane upside down after landing in Brazoria County

  BRAZORIA COUNTY, TX (KTRK) -- A pilot somehow avoided injury after his plane landed upside-down in a field in Brazoria County on Friday.

It happened around 3pm. According to DPS, the pilot reported engine trouble and tried to land the Cessna in a field near Highway 6 and FM 521. The plane flipped after it touched down. The pilot was not injured.

Houston Southwest airport is about two miles to the southwest of where the plane ended up. That may have been from where the pilot took off. We'll continue to follow this story and bring you any new information.

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Small plane makes emergency landing in Missouri City

  MISSOURI CITY, TX (KTRK) -- A small plane made an emergency landing Saturday in Fort Bend County.

It happened around 2:30pm. The plane was able to land in a cow pasture behind Ridge Point High School on Waters Lake Boulevard in Missouri City.

According to officials, the 72-year-old female pilot was not injured and there was no damage to the plane.

It's unclear why she was forced to land.

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Small plane makes emergency landing at airport

  GALVESTON, TX (KTRK) -- A pilot and a passenger of a small plane were able to walk away from a crash landing in Galveston.

It happened around 9:40am at Scholes International Airport. Airport officials say the plane made a belly landing on the runway.

Emergency crews responded to the scene. There were reports the pilot may have had issues with the landing gear but that hasn't been confirmed.

Both the pilot and a passenger were not injured in the crash.

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Houston-bound flight makes emergency landing in Amarillo

  AMARILLO, TX -- A United Express flight with 45 people aboard made an unscheduled landing in Amarillo after the captain reported pressurization issues.

Steven Picou is deputy director of aviation at Amarillo Rick Husband International Airport. He says the Embraer EMB-145XR jet was en route from Grand Junction, Colo., to Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston when the cockpit crew declared an emergency at 1:23 p.m. Wednesday.

The plane was operated by Atlanta-based ExpressJet Airlines for Chicago-based United. Picou says it made a safe, uneventful landing at 1:30 p.m., the passengers deplaned routinely and were booked on the next flight to Houston.

It was unclear if cabin depressurization actually had occurred.

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Small plane makes emergency landing at Hobby Airport

  Pooja LodhiaHOUSTON (KTRK) -- A warning light on a small plane triggered an air scare this morning. The pilot made an emergency landing at Hobby Airport.

The FAA says the pilot declared an emergency around 4:15am after a fire warning light came on the plane.

Emergency crews responded to the scene. The pilot landed the plane and there was no fire found.

There is no word on whether the plane has any flat tires. Officials say there was no danger to those on board. It's still unclear how many people were on board.

Crews are looking into exactly what happened to the plane to cause the warning light to come on.

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Plane makes emergency landing in downtown Conroe

Conroe police say this plane made an emergency landing on the streets of downtown Conroe on Tuesday night

  CONROE, TX (KTRK) -- A plane made an emergency landing in the streets of downtown Conroe, according to the Conroe Police Department.

The incident happened at around 9:50pm Tuesday at 6th Street at Davis.

The pilot has less 100 hours of flying time and has only had her pilot license for about three months when she came face to face with an emergency no pilot ever wants to see.

Officials say 22-year-old Sarah Chantal Rovner took off last night from West Houston Airport on assignment with the Civil Air Patrol. About six miles out her plane lost power.

At first Rovner hoped to glide back to the airport, but the plane was not going to make it. So Rovner decided to land on East Davis Street in Conroe. Once she touched down Rovner's plane hit a small power line, then after turning onto 6th Street the plane knocked down a sign. The wing was sheared off after she moved out of the way of an oncoming car.

"The one thing that I would say is that I'm looking forward to flying with her," said Lt. Col. Bob Beeley with the Civil Air Patrol. "She is an excellent pilot. She did a good job. She did what she was trained to do."

The plane belongs to the Air Force and will be turned over to the insurance company. Investigators still don't know why her engine lost power.

You can read more about this story in The Courier of Montgomery County, one of our Houston Community Newspaper partners.

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Plane makes emergency landing at Sugar Land airport

Officials say the Cessna twin-engine plane landed without its landing gear down at the Sugar Land airport Tuesday afternoon.

  SUGAR LAND, TX (KTRK) -- A private plane made an emergency landing at the Sugar Land Airport Tuesday afternoon.

Officials say the Cessna twin-engine plane landed without its landing gear down. No one was injured, but the runway was closed as crews try to clear a fuel spill from the landing.

Investigators will have to determine whether the landing gear issue was a mechanical failure or a pilot error.

We will bring you more information as it becomes available.

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Vintage war plane makes emergency landing

  CYPRESS, TX (KTRK) -- A pilot was able to walk away after he was forced to make an emergency landing in a vintage World War II plane Saturday afternoon

The plane landed in a field off Winding Oak near Skinner this afternoon in northwest Harris County.

The left wing was damaged when the plane ended up in some trees, but the pilot wasn't hurt and was able to get out of the aircraft.

The National Transporation Safety Board is looking into the cause of the crash. They haven't said why the pilot had to land in the field.

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