PORT CLINTON — A Columbiana, Ohio, pilot avoided a collision with other aircraft and managed to land his single-engine plane safely today without using landing gear, Ottawa County sheriff’s deputies said.

Paul B. Daniels approached the Erie-Ottawa Regional Airport in Portage Township from the west about 9:45 a.m. and heard radio traffic from another airplane that was trying to land, deputies said. Mr. Daniels, concerned about a collision with the other plane, tried to land quickly. But he failed to lower the landing gear of his Piper PA-46-350P.

Deputies said Mr. Daniels and his passenger walked away from the plane without injury.

The airport is in Port Clinton, which is 40 miles east of Toledo.

First Published July 2, 2012, 11:54 p.m.