Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Darwin International Airport, Northern Territory, Australia



The plane is towed back to the terminal.  
Picture: HELEN ORR 
Source: NT News


A light plane has been involved in an incident at Darwin International Airport.

The six-seater, single-engine Piper Saratoga had one person aboard when its landing gear "experienced issues" on landing at 9.10am, according to a Darwin Airport statement.

The pilot was uninjured.

The plane came to rest between two taxiways.

Two landing aircraft had to be moved to another runway.

Two green airport fire trucks were sent to the scene, along with engineers, and followed the plane back to the general aviation section of the airport as it was towed on its own wheels.

It was inspected and laid-up. Airport spokeswoman Virginia Sanders said: "There was minimal impact on airport operations".

"There was no damage to the runway and operations are continuing as normal."

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has not been notified, but spokesman Dan O'Malley said unless it was an "immediately-reportable matter", the ATSB did not need to know straight away.

Know more on this story? Please contact conor.byrne@news.com.au or 8944 9765.


Source:   http://www.ntnews.com


The pilot disembarks at Darwin Airport after the incident. 
Picture: HELEN ORR 
Source: NT News

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