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<h2 style="font-size: 200%;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</h2>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">January 23, 2017</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 75px; font-size: 120%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Steven Sapp, Community Relations Director
<br />(573) 874-7257</p>
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:200%;"><h3 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 170%;">Incident at Columbia Regional Airport</h3>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - Around 2:30 pm, a Beechcraft Baron twin engine aircraft which took off from Hook Field in Texas landed with four passengers on-board without incident at Columbia Regional Airport (COU). <br /><br />Shortly after landing on runway 2-20, the aircraft turned onto taxiway B, traveled about 20 feet, and the gear then collapsed for an unknown reason. <br /><br />Airport Public Safety personnel and vehicles responded and found the four occupants unharmed and exiting the aircraft. No fire occurred. <br /><br />The aircraft was disabled in a safety area causing the closure of runway 2-20. The runway closure caused American Airline flight 3681, scheduled to depart COU to Dallas Fort-Worth at 2:31 pm to be delayed. <br /><br />Units from the Columbia Fire Department responded with airbags normally used in vehicle extrication's and technical rescues, to lift the aircraft high enough for a tug to slide a tow ba
r underneath it. <br /><br />Around 6:30 pm, the aircraft was towed to Central Missouri Aviation and runway 2-20 was opened. American Airlines flight 3681 was then boarded and should be departing for Dallas around 7:30 pm. <br /><br />Late evening arrivals from Dallas and Chicago should not be affected by this incident.</div>
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