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A single-engine Beechcraft plane that failed to lower its landing gear slid on its belly to a stop at Republic Airport Saturday afternoon, officials said. None of the three people aboard were injured, an airport official said. "The plane landed with the gear up," said Mike Geiger, director of the East Farmingdale airport. He declined to speculate on whether a malfunction or pilot error was the cause. The FAA will investigate, he said. "They'll check everything."
An airport fire truck idled near the plane Saturday afternoon, but there was no sign of smoke or other fire damage. The 1979 Beechcraft Bonanza A36 plane is registered to Jacov Zimerbort of Plainview...According to aviation tracking reports on the Internet, the plane left Norwood Memorial Airport in Massachusetts at 3:11 p.m. and landed at Republic at 4:20.
Air traffic was switched to an alternate runway and Republic Airport remained open after the landing. Geiger said the plane would be removed on a flatbed truck.
