HUELO STONER / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-BULLETIN A rented airplane that crashed in Nahiku, east Maui, was resting yesterday in pasture foliage.

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Troubled plane
to be examined

A student pilot was forced
to crash-land the Cessna on Maui

WAILUKU » Federal investigators plan to recover and examine a single-engine, twin-seat Cessna 152 in which a student pilot made an emergency landing in a pasture in east Maui.

"Hopefully it will be next week," said Howard Plagens, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board.

Plagens said yesterday that federal officials were still discussing recovery of the aircraft.

Student pilot Jeffrey Marsh, 41, of Kihei was en route from Hana Airport to the Kahului Airport before 11 a.m. Sunday when he reported engine problems, authorities said.

Marsh said he turned around to go back to Hana and was forced to make an emergency landing in a pasture near the coastline of Lower Nahiku.

He walked away from the landing, but the aircraft sustained significant damage.

Maui Aviators LLC owns the airplane, which was manufactured in 1978.