Lucky landing

The small single-engine airplane had clearly been in trouble. Rock stood with his father, brothers John and Jim, and Jim's wife Karen in an open field on the northern outskirt of Arkansas Tech University. They were there to watch the flight, but Rock's attention had been drawn to a commotion at a nearby maintenance shack, and he missed whatever had forced the plane to make an emergency landing in the field.
A moment later, the pilot explained to him that the plane had begun to stall during a steep climb and that he was left no choice but to land as quickly as possible.
"I'm lucky I made it out alive," he said.