New Braunfels Regional Airport (KBAZ), Texas: EMS on Stand-By for Emergency Landing at Airport Saturday

(New Braunfels, TX) -- For the second time in a week, New Braunfels Fire and EMS were called to the New Braunfels Regional Airport for reports of a plane that had issues with its landing gear. 

In the most recent incident, crews were called to the airport around 10:45am Saturday after a pilot declared an in-flight emergency and began circling the airport after a piece of his landing gear apparently malfunctioned.

The first attempt at landing was stopped short after the tower told the pilot that his left landing gear wasn’t fully extended. So the pilot circled around the airport, eventually getting ready to attempt a 2nd landing, only to be told once again that his left landing gear had come down and then had gone back up into the plane. So the pilot circled the airport a few more times.

On the 3rd landing attempt, the airplane gave the pilot some warning signals about the landing gear, but the tower told him that the gear had finally extended all the way, so he came in on final approach and landed safely. In all, the plane, a small single-engine propeller-driven plane, had circled the airport for about an hour before finally landing.

The pilot and his passenger were uninjured in the incident, and EMS crews immediately cleared the scene, around 11:40am.

Earlier in the week, on Tuesday, first responders were called to the airport, in the 23-hundred block of FM 758, after a Beechcraft single engine plane landed without its landing gear down at all.

The pilot, an 84-year old Seguin man, told KGNB News that a flock of buzzards got in his way on his final approach for landing, and so after he maneuvered around the birds, he simply forgot to put the landing gear down.

The plane scraped the tarmac and the propeller blades were bent back when they hit the ground before the engine went into an emergency stop.

The pilot was uninjured in the incident, and EMS crews released him at the scene.
Source:   http://kgnb.am

FAA IDENTIFICATION
  Regis#: 9493S        Make/Model: BE35      Description: 35 Bonanza
  Date: 07/23/2012     Time: 1631

  Event Type: Incident   Highest Injury: None     Mid Air: N    Missing: N
  Damage: Minor

LOCATION
  City: NEW BRAUNFELS   State: TX   Country: US

DESCRIPTION
  AIRCRAFT LANDED GEAR UP, NEW BRAUNFELS, TX

INJURY DATA      Total Fatal:   0
                 # Crew:   1     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:    
                 # Pass:   0     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:    
                 # Grnd:         Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:    

OTHER DATA
  Activity: Unknown      Phase: Landing      Operation: OTHER

  FAA FSDO: SAN ANTONIO, TX  (SW17)               Entry date: 07/24/2012

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=9493S