MELBOURNE, Australia — A light plane with three people aboard landed safely without landing gear Monday after circling an Australian airport for almost three hours to burn off fuel.

The twin-turboprop Beechcraft Super King Air had just taken off from Newcastle Airport north of Sydney for a 112-mile flight north to Port Macquarie when the pilot raised the alarm, officials said.

The plane landed on the tarmac around three hours later at 12:20 p.m. apparently without incident, video showed.

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