Flight BE331 to Inverness crashed on Friday with 56 passengers and crew on board. They escaped serious injury, but one passenger was taken to the hospital for a hand injury, the report said.
The plane took off from George Best Belfast City Airport at around 11:20 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 10, and was forced to circle the city and dump fuel before coming back to the airport to crash-land, Flybe said.
“There are no further reports of any other passenger or crew injuries,” the representative said.
The plane then landed without any nose landing gear.
“We are sending a specialist team to Belfast to offer assistance and we will now do all we can to understand the cause of this incident,” the Flybe spokesperson told the paper.
“Landing without a nose gear is a very difficult manoeuvre, but one pilots train extensively for,” the British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) tweeted. The Flybe pilots “appear to have done a sterling job,” the agency added, as the BBC reported.
Several flights were subsequently delayed.