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Sitka fireman Robert Dennard walks back to a fire truck Sunday after looking at the damage to a Guardian Flight King Air aircraft that landed at the Sitka airport without a front landing gear.

Photo: Emergency landing in Sitka 091107 local 5 JuneauEmpire Sitka fireman Robert Dennard walks back to a fire truck Sunday after looking at the damage to a Guardian Flight King Air aircraft that landed at the Sitka airport without a front landing gear.

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Photo: Emergency landing in Sitka

James Poulson Daily Sitka Sentinel

Sitka fireman Robert Dennard walks back to a fire truck Sunday after looking at the damage to a Guardian Flight King Air aircraft that landed at the Sitka airport without a front landing gear. Emergency workers sprayed foam on the runway for the landing after being told of a mechanical failure in the front landing gear. No one was seriously injured in the landing. The plane, used for medevacs, was transporting a patient to Sitka from Wrangell.