\u00a0At 6:44 am on March 26, Long Beach Fire Department units were notified by the Long Beach Air Traffic Control Tower of a Cessna with 2 persons aboard, having difficulty locking the nose gear on their twin-engine aircraft.\u00a0 Crash units stood by at the airport fire station while the aircraft flew by the tower.\u00a0 The tower observed that the nose gear appeared not to be in the down and locked position.\u00a0 The pilot advised that he would attempt to land the aircraft while Crash units stood by at the taxiways.\u00a0 The aircraft touched down and stopped on the runway, settling on its nose.\u00a0 Crash units responded to the aircraft and found that the 2 souls on board had exited the aircraft unharmed.\u00a0 There was no fire present.\u00a0 A small leak of fuel was dripping from the vent hole on the left wing tip.\u00a0 A protection hoseline was extended from Crash 5 and absorbent was placed on the ground to contain the leaking fuel.\u00a0 The vent was plugged to stop the leak.\u00a0 Personnel from Airport Operations and Airport Security arrived on scene to initiate the investigation.\u00a0 Crash units were requested to lift the aircraft and attempt to lower the nose gear.\u00a0 Airbags and cribbing were employed to lift the nose and lower the gear.\u00a0 Fortunately, no injuries were reported to citizens or to firefighters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0At 6:44 am on March 26, Long Beach Fire Department units were notified by the Long Beach Air Traffic Control Tower of a Cessna with 2 persons aboard, having difficulty locking the nose gear on their twin-engine aircraft.\u00a0 Crash units stood by at the airport fire station while the aircraft flew by the tower.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}