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Plane Crashes At South Coast Airport

(SBFD Photo)
No one injured in plane crash at Santa Barbara Airport

Authorities are trying to figure out what to a plane crash on the South Coast.

A light plane landed on its belly at Santa Barbara Airport around 1:30 Thursday afternoon. The pilot, who was the only person on board, was uninjured. There was a small fuel leak, which was quickly contained by firefighters.

The plane suffered major damage to its underside, and propeller.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.