Float plane lands on water near Fleming Key due to gear issue, Key West FL
Other Non-Crime EventsA float plane approaching Key West had a landing gear malfunction and landed on water near Fleming Key. The pilot sought a place to land and work on the plane.
Audio|Source: Key West Airport (KEYW)
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Transcript:
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Go ahead. Yeah, hey, Sonny, do you know we had a float plane with a problem a little bit ago, landed up by six feet?
00:07
Would he be allowed to, like, go on the beach up there, like off of Fleming Key or anything by the dive school?
00:12
He has an emergency they can, but if he goes up to see, if he goes off to the shore of the sea, there'll be the shoreman's going to come out after much more on.
00:21
Okay, yeah, I kind of told him that might be the case, but all he'd have to do is, like I said, explain, yeah, he was coming in from the tortugas, and one of his landing gear wouldn't go down.
00:30
So he just needed some place in the water to land, and also to be able to get out and kind of work on it if he needed to.
00:35
So, yeah, hopefully he's going to take care of up there.
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Location mentioned:
Fleming Key, Key West, FL 33040
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