Light Aircraft Incident Darwin

[AussieNick]

A LIGHT plane has been involved in an incident at Darwin International Airport. Details are sketchy, however, it appears the plane has come off one of the runways.
It is not clear if anyone has been hurt.
The airport has been contacted for comment.


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Looks like it might be one of CSG's birds or Territory Air Services Saratoga.

From the photo maybe looks like the left gear collapsed/didn't extend

[lurker999]

from Nine News Facebook

Nine News Darwin
"EMERGENCY LANDING: At approximately 0910 a light aircraft (Piper Saratoga) experienced issues with its landing gear and upon landing, veered off Runway 29 and came to rest between two taxiways. There was one person on board who was not injured. Assessments were carried out on the aircraft and it was able to be moved off the runway strip within approx. 30 minutes. There was minimal impact on airport operations, with two aircraft diverted to the cross runway for landing.
There was no damage to the runway and operations are continuing as normal. (from NT Airports)"

[AussieNick]

An update from the 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.

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



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.

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



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.