Plane suffers minor damage after emergency landing in Jefferson City

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)

No one was hurt when a small prop plane landed at the Jefferson City Memorial Airport on Monday after its landing gear would not deploy.

The Jefferson City Fire Department said in a Facebook post that firefighters were called to the airport at about 5:40 p.m. Monday for a plane with radio and landing gear problems that was about 25 miles away. The plane's landing gear was only partially down, the post said.

After unsuccessfully trying to get the landing gear to drop, the pilot decided to land, the fire department said. The plane suffered only minor scrapes and damage and the pilot was unhurt, the fire department said.