Crime & Safety
Pilot Taken To Hospital After Landing Plane With Gear Up At Brookhaven Calabro Airport In Shirley: Police
It happened Sunday night at around 10:20 p.m., Suffolk police say.
SHIRLEY, NY — A Cessna airplane was landed with its gear up, or belly landing, at Brookhaven Calabro Airport in Shirley Sunday night, Suffolk police said.
A gear up landing means the aircraft landed without its landing gear extended.
It happened at around 10:20 p.m., and no passengers were aboard.
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The pilot, a 54-year-old from Lindenhurst, was taken By Mastic Volunteer Ambulance Company to NYU Langone Hospital – Suffolk in East Patchogue for a precautionary medical evaluation, officials said.
The district office of the Federal Aviation Administration was notified.
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Patch has reached out to the FAA.
In a post to Facebook, Mastic Fire Department officials said its front landing gear never came out properly, and it was leaking fluids, so the scene needed to be secured.
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