TULSA, Okla. (AP) - The main runway at Tulsa International
Airport was closed for about two hours today after an aircraft made
an emergency landing without landing gear.
The plane, a World War Two-vintage T-Six trainer, landed on its
belly at the airport this morning. The pilot report that the
aircraft's landing gear malfunctioned and would not come down.
Authorities say the plane landed safely and that neither the
pilot nor his passenger were injured.
Tulsa Fire Department Captain Mitch Parnell says fire officials
and the Oklahoma Air National Guard helped remove the aircraft from
the runway.
Parnell says the landing caused no delays in the landing or
departure of commercial air carrier aircraft.
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From Paul Stephenson, KOTV
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