Highest Injury: None
Damage: Unknown
Description: AIRCRAFT LANDED GEAR UP, HYANNIS, MA
Flight Phase: LANDING (LDG)
FAA Flight Standards District Office: FAA Boston FSDO-61
SPRING CITY AVIATION INC: http://registry.faa.gov/N672B
HYANNIS – A Falmouth man made an emergency landing this afternoon at Barnstable Municipal Airport.
A Hyannis fire official said Michael Reardon, the owner and only passenger of the single prop Beechcraft plane, heard a strange noise when he tried to deploy the front landing gear while approaching Nantucket Memorial Airport.
The tower could not see the planes landing gear down and redirected Reardon to Hyannis.
Hyannis fire crews arrived at the airport as a precaution.
Airport officials in Hyannis also could not see the front landing gear down and the pilot was instructed to circle the airport for about an hour to burn more fuel before attempting a landing.
Reardon landed the plane on runway 15 around 3:30 p.m. on it’s nose.
Hyannis Fire Captain Craig Farrenkopf said the plane sustained almost no damage from the landing and that Reardon was uninjured during the landing.
Griffin Avionics and Capeway Towing & Transport assisted with removing the plane from the runway.
- Source: http://www.capecod.com
A pilot make a nose-first emergency landing at a Cape Cod airport after reporting a problem with his nose gear, according to officials.
Authorities say the pilot, who hasn't been identified and was the only person on board, was flying a Beechcraft Bonanza BE 35 Monday afternoon to Nantucket Municipal Airport and noticed a problem with the plane's nose-gear, then called to asked to be diverted to Hyannis' Barnstable Municipal Airport.
FAA says the plane landed safely around 3:20 p.m. without its nose wheel down, scraping the bottom of the nose of the plane and damaging one prop.
The agency says it's investigation with the NTSB.
There were no reported injuries.
- Source: http://www.necn.com
HYANNIS - The pilot of a small single-engine prop plane made an emergency landing at Barnstable Municipal Airport in Hyannis Monday afternoon. The front landing gear appeared to not have deployed.
There were no reported injuries.
Officials closed the airport for a brief time during the incident. Hyannis firefighters responded along with airport personnel.
It is unknown if there was anyone else onboard other than the pilot. Authorities will investigate what caused the landing gear to malfunction.
- Source: http://www.capecodtoday.com
