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Small plane crash disrupts operations at Santa Barbara Airport

No one was injured in a small plane accident at Santa Barbara Airport.
Santa Barbara Fire Department
No one was injured in a small plane accident at Santa Barbara Airport.

No injures reported.

A light plane made a rough landing at Santa Barbara Airport, temporarily closing it.

It happened just after 11 a.m. Friday morning. A single engine plane made a hard landing, ending up on its nose.

The pilot was unhurt. The accident shut down the airport for around a half hour, and one of the runways for a few hours.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.