Stolp SA-300 Starduster Too, N45JV: Incident occurred November 15, 2012 at Palm Springs International Airport (KPSP), Palm Springs, California

http://registry.faa.gov/N45JV

FAA IDENTIFICATION
  Regis#: 45JV        Make/Model: EXP       Description:  SA-300
  Date: 11/15/2012     Time: 2223

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

LOCATION
  City: PALM SPRINGS   State: CA   Country: US

DESCRIPTION
  AIRCRAFT ON TAKEOFF, WENT OFF THE SIDE OF THE RUNWAY, PALM SPRINGS, CA

INJURY DATA      Total Fatal:   0
                 # Crew:   2     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: Take-off      Operation: OTHER


  FAA FSDO: RIVERSIDE, CA  (WP21)                 Entry date: 11/16/2012 

 

 

A Stolp SA-300 Starduster Too plane with a collapsed landing gear is examined by firefighters and Palm Springs International Airport officials Thursday. No one was injured during landing, officials said. 

PALM SPRINGS — A disabled airplane made an emergency landing Thursday at Palm Springs International Airport, forcing the closure of one of the airport’s runways and delaying some travelers. 

 Tom Nolan, executive director of the airport, said, “We had a small experimental aircraft land on our main runway encounter a landing gear issue.”

Two people were involved in the incident and there were no injuries reported, according to Nolan.

Nolan also said the main runway where the damaged aircraft sat was closed. As a result, incoming airplanes had to land on an alternate runway while crews worked to remove the damaged aircraft.

It took 50 minutes for the aircraft to be removed from the runway and for the airport to return to normal. The runway was soon reopened.

One eye witness, Brian Marantz of Seattle, was at the airport when the incident happened. He said when he “got to the gate, there was an airplane with no landing gear.”

He said he later saw three to four “big, huge, monstrous yellow trucks,” tending to the disabled plane.
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The two occupants of an experimental aircraft escaped injury when it ran off the main runway while landing at Palm Springs Airport, an official said. 

 The mishap was reported at 3:15 p.m. Thursday, and it took around 45 minutes to clear the runway, said Palm Springs Airport Executive Director Thomas Nolan.