A plane carrying actor Morgan Freeman experienced a problem on takeoff in Mississippi Saturday which ended in an unscheduled landing and damage to the aircraft, the star said in a statement.<br />There were no injuries.<br />NBC affiliate WMC in Memphis reported the landing occurred at Tunica Airport Saturday.<br />Morgan was on his was to Texas to shoot a segment for the series "The Story of God," Freeman said.<br />"Sometimes things don't go as planned and a tire blew on take-off which caused other problems.<br />But thanks to my excellent pilot Jimmy Hobson we landed safely without a scratch," Freeman said in a statement distributed by his publicist, Stan Rosenfield.<br />Freeman and the pilot were the only ones aboard, WMC reported.<br />Tunica is located about 40 miles southwest of Memphis, Tennessee.
