A Beechcraft Baron plane veered off the runway at Palo Alto Airport, no injuries reported, fuel leak contained.

A small plane ran off the runway at Palo Alto Airport on Saturday afternoon, drifting into the Baylands Nature Preserve and prompting a fire department response.

The city of Palo Alto is warning people to stay away from the Baylands Nature Preserve after a small plane landed there on Saturday afternoon. Hazmat crews and firefighters are investigating whether a plane that landed in the marshland leaked fuel into the waters.

A plane ran off the runway at the Palo Alto Airport Saturday afternoon and leaked fuel into a nature preserve, city officials said. At 2:59 p.m., a 911 call reported that a small aircraft had drifted into the Baylands Nature Preserve marshland,