A P-51 Mustang landed safely at Mobile Downtown Airport on Sunday after one of aviation’s living legends helped the pilot through a problem with the airplane’s landing gear.

The P-51 Mustang was the darling of the Army Air Forces. Aerodynamically agile and acrobatic, ... His engine was cooked and now he had to find a place to make an emergency landing.

The P-51 Mustang, which was in Tallahassee as part of a traveling Tuskegee Airman Exhibit, ... There appears to be some damage to the landing gear,” Durwin said.