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Photo courtesy city of Palo Alto. 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.

A plane ran off the runway at the Palo Alto Airport on 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 ...