Plane crash-lands in North Carolina, pilot escapes injury
A small aircraft crash-landed at Currituck Regional Airport in North Carolina Friday.
Firefighters were called to the airport in Maple at 11:30 a.m. after the landing gear failed on the fixed-wing, single-engine Bellanca, the Crawford Township Volunteer Fire Department said in a Facebook post.
Emergency crews had to use air bags and blocking to lift the plane off the ground so it could be safely moved.
The fire department said the pilot was the only occupant of the two-seater plane, which is registered to Polihierax LLC based in Kalispell, Montana, Federal Aviation Administration records show. The pilot was not injured.
The aircraft took off from the Buie Field Airport in Red Springs, near Fayetteville, at 8:23 a.m. Friday, according to FlightAware.com, a website that tracks air traffic.
The FAA had not yet listed the incident in its preliminary accident data Friday evening.
