{"id":23357,"date":"2026-03-02T22:04:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/23357\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:04:57","slug":"runway-back-open-at-new-bern-airport-after-plane-lands-on-belly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/23357\/","title":{"rendered":"Runway back open at New Bern airport after plane lands on belly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The runway at Coastal Carolina Regional Airport is back open after a plane landed on its belly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sunday night, emergency crews could be seen at the airport after a small single-engine plane landed on its belly. Airport Director Andrew Shorter was only able to share a few details about what he called a \u201cwheels up landing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Shorter, the small single-engine plane had a landing gear problem, and when the plane went to land, the gear folded underneath, causing the plane the slide on it\u2019s belly, also known as \u201cGear-up landing\u201d. Shorter says there were no injuries and accidents like this happen from time to time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe person who has the plane is probably going to be upset to have a big maintenance bill to repair the airplane. But it worked as designed. No injuries, no fire, no issue,\u201d Shorter told WITN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Shorter says that the three people on board the plane were not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He says the plane landed on the bigger runway, which is why one commercial flight was delayed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Shorter told WITN that the landing \u201cdidn\u2019t leave a scratch on the runway,\u201d which was closed for about 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to FlightAware the last plane to land at the airport was a Piper PA-24 Comanche at 7:54 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The runway at Coastal Carolina Regional Airport is back open after a plane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,14942,14941,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-23357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bern","8":"tag-bern","9":"tag-ewn","10":"tag-plane","11":"tag-witn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}