A Cessna 182 landing at Merrill Field in Anchorage didn’t quite make the runway, but instead ended up in the parking lot of the Northway Mall in Anchorage on Sunday. The mall is on Penland Parkway just west of the air field and only has a couple of commercial tenants; the parking lot was mostly empty.
The tail number on the Cessna is N3206U, and the plane is privately owned, registered to a former commander of Alaska Wing of the Civil Air Patrol.
No injuries were reported and Anchorage police and Anchorage Fire Department were on the scene in the afternoon.