These old ladies don`t get damaged......(Ed.)
Plane catches fire during landing at Fort Lauderdale Executive
Airport
Two people aboard a plane that caught fire at Fort
Lauderdale Executive Airport were not hurt, a city official
The left engine
on a twin-engine plane caught fire and its landing gear collapsed when it
arrived at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport Wednesday morning, local and
federal authorities said.
The airport tower summoned Fort Lauderdale Fire
Rescue's fire truck that is stationed at the airfield to the blaze on a runway,
and the fire was extinguished with foam, Battalion Chief Gregory May
said.
Two people aboard the plane, a Beech BE 18, were not injured in the
crash, May said. Their names were not released.
The aircraft has its own
hangar at the air field that is at 6000 NW 21st Ave. and West Cypress Creek
Road. It is used to fly cargo to the Bahamas, and was returning from the islands
Wednesday when it crashed, Assistant Airport Manager Carlton Harrison
said.
The plane's owner is registered with the Federal Aviation
Administration as William B. Chase, 71, of West Des Moines, Iowa. He holds
flight instructor and airline transport pilot certificates, according to the
FAA's online records.
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