A corporate jet overshot the runway when trying to land at the Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie, Minnesota on Monday. The aircraft went through a fence and camp to a stop at a road.
The plane was arriving at the airport and couldn't stop at the end of the runway. The Embraer Phenon 300 hit a fence at the airport perimeter and stopped traffic on Flying Cloud Drive just before 9 a.m. The crash did not cause the airport to close as flights were still able to take off and land without issue. Some flights were halted only temporarily, as required by federal regulations, the Star Tribune reported.
However Southbound Flying Cloud Drive was closed briefly after the incident. It reopened at around 2:45 p.m.
"We understand there were no injuries. There's no one transported at all to the hospital. There were two pilots, a pilot and a co-pilot on board and no passengers," Metropolitan Airports Commission spokeswoman Melissa Scovronski told Minnesota Public Radio.
The plane is owned by Flight Options of Cleveland. They confirmed that there were only two pilots on board. The plane seats seven passengers. Neither of the pilots was hurt. They were standing outside of the year-old aircraft right after the crash.
It is not clear where the flight originated, but it took off from Pittsburgh International Airport at 7:31 a.m. before it crashed. It was supposed to land at 8:47 a.m.
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating what caused the accident.
Flight Options calls itself the world's second-largest private aviation fleet. They serve 1,300 owners and clients with 100 aircraft.
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