It's a bird, it's a plane, it IS a plane making an emergency landing

For the last 2 days, it's clear that it is Labor Day Weekend in Cleveland, Ohio and the Air Show is right around the corner.

Mid-week before Labor Day Weekend, the planes which will be performing in the Air Show begin arriving.

What a sight not only to see but to hear.

As I sit at the news assignment desk, I don't even have to see anything but just hearing the planes zooming around as if they are feet away is a thrill.

I can not say it enough, I love living in this city and all it has to offer.

Seeing the Air Show at Burke Lakefront Airport each Labor Day Weekend is a great treat for young and old alike.

An absolutely great vantage point to watch the Air Show is our very own third floor porch. Best seat in the house and we don't have to pay a thing!

But tonight, we had a different, exciting twist, which fortunately ended happily.

As we were doing a weather bump live shot from our porch off of the back of the wkyc building, Videographer Mark Smilor saw a plane come in for a landing and then loads of fire trucks head for the location of the landing.

He immediately called the news desk. I immediately dispatched a crew (George Payamgis) down to Burke Lakefront Airport as well as reporter Paul Thomas. Then I called the control room to tell them what was happening if they did not already know. I told the producer to keep their eye on Mark's shot.

Our sigac operator dialed in one of our traffic cameras to see what they could see.

And as luck would have it, wkyc was airing the Indians' Game so the Blimp was up in the friendly skies.

The blimp caught the entire thing in the STO control room.

Now, even though technology today is phenomenal, it still took a little doing to get what was captured by the Blimp in one control room over to the other control room. I believe we had to make a dub before we could get anything on our air.

As luck would have it, Paul Thomas also ran into someone who caught the event on video as well. He allowed us to use his amateur video.

It's amazing how things sometime come together and how a number of individuals must work together to piece together a breaking news story.

Fortunately, the pilot was not injured and landed the plane safely. The plane sustained some damage because the wheels were not down during his landing.

I had a new employee on the desk who was able to see first hand during her first week how 'spot news' happens and how you must react to it and pull everything together.

When we had a lull, I explained to her what I did, who I called, who I communicated to, and how to handle a situation such as we just had.

And the great thing about this: No one had it on their websites all night long, no Twitter, no Facebook.

The 10pm competition did not have the story.

One other station at 11pm regrouped and added a VO into their show after ours aired.

It's nice when everything comes together and falls into place!

Perfect ending to a tremendous week and wonderful start to a holiday weekend!