A small plane made an emergency landing Friday afternoon at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, and no one was injured when it came down around 2:40 p.m.
RDU Fire Rescue and Operations responded to the incident and were working to clear the disabled aircraft from the airport’s secondary runway for reopening, while the main runway stayed open. At the time the airport spokesperson spoke, flights were still landing and taking off at RDU, keeping the airport operational even as crews focused on the disabled plane.
The landing did not shut down the airport, and the disruption stayed limited to the secondary runway. That distinction mattered: the main runway remained operational while crews moved to reopen the other strip, leaving the airport able to keep traffic moving. It was a quick recovery after a rare but familiar kind of scare, the sort that can unsettle passengers without turning into a larger emergency.
