LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A small airplane skidded right into a ditch adjoining to the runway at Henderson Government Airport within the southwest Las Vegas valley Wednesday morning.
The incident occurred simply after 10 a.m. on Wednesday when airport officers mentioned the Malibu 171 plane ended up within the ditch. Officers mentioned the three people had been capable of depart the airplane safely. Hearth crews and airport personnel had been on web site after the incident.
No data was instantly accessible as as to if the airplane’s occupants had been injured or the reason for the crash.
In accordance with the Federal Aviation Administration, the Henderson Government Airport is a “small to medium-sized” airport with two parallel runways and “supports a large helicopter population.”
It isn’t the primary exhausting touchdown at Henderson Government Airport. In 2019 a Cessna 182’s touchdown gear collapsed. That touchdown did not injure anybody however the plane sustained minor injury. Simply days earlier, a airplane taking off from the airport had mechanical points simply after takeoff, crashing simply south of the airport and killing two.
