A local air freight carrier's Beech twin-engine aircraft made a successful emergency landing shortly after noon yesterday at Honolulu Airport after one of its landing gears failed.

The pilot and co-pilot of the Kamaka Air Cargo plane were not injured. Company officials said the plane was headed to Moloka'i but returned to Honolulu.

State Department of Transportation spokesman Scott Ishikawa said the pilot reported problems with the plane's right landing gear.

The pilot did a flyover at Honolulu Airport and tower officials confirmed the gear was not down.

The pilot landed the aircraft with only the left landing gear deployed. Witnesses described it as a belly landing. A small fire was started by the friction of the landing but was extinguished without incident.

POLICE ARREST WANTED MAN

Police yesterday arrested a man in Wai'anae wanted on four outstanding warrants.

Less Allen Schnabel Sr., 41, who gave police no local address, was arrested at 1:30 p.m. on the 85-500 block of Wai'anae Valley Road on four warrants totaling $51,775. He was also being held in lieu of $20,000 for two 2007 drug counts.

Schnabel has an initial appearance scheduled at District Court today. He has 15 prior criminal convictions.

OFFICE EVACUATED BECAUSE OF ODOR

Patients and personnel were evacuated from a dentist's office on the Big Island yesterday as a precautionary measure after the Fire Department received several complaints of a foul odor.

The Hawai'i County Fire Department reported that the odor at Hawaii Family Dental in Kailua, Kona may have come from drying joint compound, latex caulk or latex paint from an exam room that was being renovated.

Three people were evacuated; none of them needed medical attention. The office was ventilated and fire officials cleared it to reopen.

WITNESSES TO HILO ASSAULT SOUGHT

Hawai'i County police are seeking witnesses to an assault at Leleiwi Beach Park in Hilo on Monday.

A 60-year-old Hilo man reported that while he was cutting grass near the three-pavilion parking lot near the pond area between noon and 1 p.m., he was confronted by a man who threw a stick and rocks at him and then initiated a fight.

The suspect was described as about 40 years old, 5 feet 11 and about 240 pounds. He had tattoos on both arms.