Plane makes emergency landing at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield

The twin-engine Beechcraft King Air 350 carrying eight passengers and crew took off from Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport in Kansas City at 2:20 p.m. and reached an altitude of 24,000 feet over northwest Missouri.

About 17 minutes into the flight, the plane began to descend after the pilot reported a fuel leak. Emergency vehicles met the aircraft when it landed at Eppley at 3:01 p.m. It taxied to the apron on the east side of the field without incident, said Tim Schmitt, director of operations for the Omaha Airport Authority.

Less than an hour later, it took off again and continued to its original destination, Sioux Falls Regional Airport. Earlier in the day it had flown to Kansas City from Bentonville, Arkansas, according to the flight-tracking website Flightaware.com.

The aircraft, built in 2006, is registered to Isgrowth Machines in Mankato, Minnesota, which purchased it in January.

A different plane belonging to the same company — a Beechcraft King Air 300 — suffered a collapsed nose gear when it ran off the end of a runway at Mankato Regional Airport Feb. 5, 2019, according to Aviation-Safety.net, a database of aircraft incidents and accidents maintained by the Flight Safety Foundation.