NATION IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Commuter Plane Crash-Lands Safely
A commuter plane carrying 32 passengers and crew made a belly landing at Orlando International Airport after a hydraulic failure locked up the landing gear. No one was injured. Comair Flight 3599 was arriving from Nassau in the Bahamas when the flight crew called to report the hydraulics problem, said airport spokesman Warren Wright. The Embraer EMB-120 threw out 45-foot sparks as metal scraped the runway. Damage to the aircraft was minimal, the airline said. Earlier, a USAir MD-80 jetliner with 132 passengers on board made an emergency landing at the Orlando airport after the right engine failed, said company spokeswoman Sharon Taylor.
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