Pilot skids through field while making emergency landing at Grayslake airport

A suburban pilot flying a small plane from South Dakota back to the suburbs had to make an emergency landing Sunday evening at Campbell Airport in Grayslake.

The pilot from Cary was flying a 1979 single-engine Cessna 210 from Pierre, South Dakota, to Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling when he began experiencing engine trouble, said the Grayslake Fire Protection District, which responded to the scene off Town Line Road shortly before 6 p.m.

Fire crews arrived to find the pilot outside the airplane uninjured.

The pilot landed 100-150 feet short of the runway on the west side of the airport and skidded through a farm field and across a bridge before coming to rest on the far west end of the runway, the fire district said.

Fire crews mitigated a small fuel spill on the ground and turned the scene over to the Lake County sheriff's office and the FAA. Airport personnel were also on the scene to assist.

ABC 7 Chicago reported the aircraft was registered to Runzel Brothers Aviation LLC in Bensenville, according to the FAA.