A Citabria aircraft based out of Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose was damaged during landing at San Martin Airport at around 10 a.m. today, according to Director Carl Honaker of Santa Clara County Airports.
“I don’t have a lot of details about it, but there were no injuries,” Honaker said.
San Martin Airport doesn’t have ground staff Thursday through Saturday, explained Honaker, but local business owners based at the airport assisted the pilot – the only person on board – in getting the plane off the runway and onto a trailer.
The fact that the plane was unable to fly after the incident doesn’t surprise Honaker.
“It doesn’t take a whole lot to keep a plane out of the air,” he said.
It could be something as minor as a puncture or even a dented wing, he added. The FAA and NTSB will begin an investigation to find the cause of the incident, Honaker explained.
