The heavy job of disassembling a small aircraft and hauling it away took several hours Thursday, just one day after the plane made an emergency hard landing on a field adjacent to a Miramar school.

A small plane made an emergency landing on a field at a Miramar elementary school Wednesday afternoon, police say. The plane went down around 1:10 p.m. on the west side of Coconut Palm Elementary school, located at 13601 Monarch Lane, said Janice McIntosh, a spokeswoman with Miramar police.