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<p>A locally based private airplane with three people on board made an emergency landing on a Carlsbad beach early Thursday morning.</p>
<p>The airplane, a single-engine Piper-PA28R-200 Arrow registered to Christopher J. Sluka of San Diego, departed Montgomery Field Airport at 7:31 am and landed on the beach at approximately 7:44 am. All three people on the airplane survived with no major injuries.</p>
<p>It is not clear if the owner was the pilot at the time.</p>