Saturday, 03 August 2019 04:18

Shock as plane lands on busy road

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Authorities say a small plane landed on a busy stretch of road in Washington state, stunning drivers but hurting no one.

Washington State Patrol says the single-propeller KR2 aircraft landed Thursday on the street in the city of Parkland, south of Tacoma.

Trooper Johnna Batiste says the pilot was able to land during a break in traffic after a fuel system malfunction caused the plane to stall. Video shows it stopping just before an intersection.

Driver Dennis Diessner told Seattle TV station KOMO that the plane came so close to his car that he thought he could have reached out and touched it. He says he pulled over to make sure the pilot was OK.

Batiste says a trooper who was nearby helped the pilot push the plane into a parking lot.

 

Compiled by Olalekan Adeleye

AP

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