The Department of Civil Aviation  has confirmed a gear up incident at or around 10:50 am on Saturday, 10th January 2014 resulting in the crash landing of a Piper Aerostar N60PA at the North Eleuthera airport this morning.

The aircraft was en-route from the Bight Cat Island with two persons on board. There were no reported injuries, however the airport is closed until the aircraft was removed from the runway.

The runway was subsequently reopened at around 2:40pm on Saturday. The Department of Civil Aviation is actively investigating the cicumstances surrounding this aviation incident.