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'Hard Landing' Reported At Harry Reid International Airport
Airplane passengers on a red-eye flight reportedly experienced a hard landing at Harry Reid International Airport in Paradise early Friday.
PARADISE, NV — Sleepy passengers flying on a red-eye flight got quite a wake-up early Friday as a landing gear issue reportedly caused the plane to experience a "hard landing" at Harry Reid International Airport in Paradise, Nevada.
An airport spokesman told KTNV a Sun Country plane heading to Minneapolis, Minnesota, turned around and made a hard landing just before 1:30 a.m. Friday after the landing gear collapsed.
None of the 56 people on board were hurt, according to the TV station. The runway was temporarily closed.
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