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A small plane made an ’emergency landing’ at Ruckel Airport Saturday afternoon in Niceville – according to Niceville Fire Chief Tommy Mayville.
Mayville said there were no injuries due to the landing – which he said had to do with landing gear not deploying correctly. According to Mayville, the pilot successfully landed the plane without serious injury.
Niceville Fire, East Niceville Fire Department, and North Bay Fire Control District responded to the emergency.
This is a developing story. We will update it as we get more information.
Ruckel Airfield is a private grass airstrip that houses propellor-driven aircraft. There are a total of 25 single-engine aircraft housed at the airfield, according to Airnav.com.
Ruckel Properties, Inc. is listed as the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) owner.
Ruckel Airport has had eight incidents since 1984, according to records collected by the NTSB.
Three of those accidents were fatal, including two deaths since 2012. The other death took place in 1989.
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“Christmas miracle”. “Pilot averts disaster”. Pretty strong headline language for an incident for which the reporter has no data. So let’s see what other data we can find to bolster the public image of “those dangerous little airplanes”. Oh, three fatalities at the airport in … 34 years??? How many potential emergency situations were correctly handled during that time thanks to hundreds of hours of pilot training, much of which is conducted at Ruckel? We don’t have that data, do we?
Ruckel Airport is a gem in the area. Let’s not sensationalize the few incidents there before we have the data. How about some positive publicity once in a while?
(Oh by the way, if it was indeed a landing gear concern, you might want to use a picture of something other than an aircraft with fixed, non-retractable landing gear.)
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