A small plane made an emergency landing after take-off at Naples Airport early Jan. 1.
Airport officials reported on Facebook about 7:45 a.m. Wednesday that a 36 Bonanza plane had to land “and thankfully all four people on board walked away from the aircraft.”
“A few buildings on the airport grounds were damaged and the airport has resumed normal operations,” the Facebook post said.
A photo Naples Airport shared on Facebook shows the cockpit and right wing of the small plane near a building with damage to an exterior wall.
The Beechcraft Bonanza 36 is a single-engine, six-seater plane that has been in continuous production longer than any other aircraft in history.
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The reason why the plane had to made an emergency landing has not yet been revealed.
Dave Osborn is the regional features editor of the Naples Daily News and The News-Press.
This article originally appeared on Naples Daily News: Plane crashes at airport on Jan. 1: What we know
