A plane is now out of the Red River, after a crash landing earlier this week. We're told the two teenagers inside were forced to make an emergency landing Tuesday night in Love County. Since then, crews have been working to remove the plane from the Red River.

As the sun set Friday night in Marshall County, a rescue crew determined they'd need to wrap up their efforts to pull a small aircraft from the Red River, and start again in the morning.

"It was just extremely desolate, it was a lot more desolate than I thought it was going to be," area airport owner, Rooke Everill, said.

Although the crew had seen the aircraft overhead before they hit the water, once they were along side it, the process to load it onto flotation devices was harder than they expected.

"It was upside down, and it was a little bit rougher than I thought it was going to be," airplane mechanic, Mark Warren, said.

Early Saturday, the team of four hit the Red River again to float the rescued two person aircraft to a wide enough loading site.

"The hard part was for the boat drivers, keeping it in deeper water through the currents and keeping it out of the trees in the narrow canyons and stuff," Warren, said.

On Tuesday, the Piper J3 Cub landed on a sandbar 20 miles upstream from where it was pulled out of the water four days later.

After a slow float behind an airboat, the 800 pound personal aircraft was disassembled by a mechanic.

"The most tedious part was just being patient enough to float about a mile an hour downstream," Everill, said.

Once the crew pulled the plane onto shore, it took several hours to take it apart, in preparation for an evaluation by an insurance adjuster.

Mechanics say they're not sure if operator error or a mechanical error forced the emergency landing.

The two teenagers inside the plane, Tuesday, were not injured.

Retail value of the aircraft is close to $35,000 mechanics say, and the Cub had flown less than 10 hours since receiving a brand new coat of paint.