BEND — A single-engine jet from California with three passengers landed in Bend without functioning landing gear and crashed on its nose, closing the airport for two hours, the manager of Bend Municipal Airport said Thursday, Aug. 3.

None of the passengers were injured.

Around noon, the single-engine Vision jet from Modesto, California, landed at the Bend airport, but the front landing gear did not deploy and the airplane landed on its nose, said Tracy Williams, the airport manager.

“I don’t know what caused it. I just know what I’ve encountered,” Williams said. “If you think about it, it would be like you falling on the ground and you being dragged by your nose. You’ve got to lift your head up, right? To lift your nose up off the floor.”

Williams said a crane was brought in from Redmond, and the airplane was propped back up on the tires so that it could be taken off the runway. Williams said the airport reopened around 2 p.m.