Here's The Moment A Plane Landed On A Busy Freeway
Drivers on the East Bay freeway near San Francisco had to contend with more than just a little traffic on Saturday night. This dashcam footage shows the moment a single-engine Cessna passed the car of the Greer family overhead, on approach to making an emergency landing on the busy road.
The plane had developed a fuel pump problem shortly before the plane reached the pilot’s intended final destination of Hayward Executive Airport, having flown to the Bay Area from Lake Tahoe. According to the Greers, the pilot appeared to hold the plane over the road and wait for a sufficient gap in the traffic to open up, before making the emergency landing.
The landing was a success, with neither the plane’s two occupants nor any road users harmed in the process. The Cessna was later loaded onto a truck and transported to Hayward.
Think this is extreme? Just wait until you read about the time a Boeing 767 landed on a live race track…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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That’s normal in GTA V.
Lands a Luxor Deluxe sideways on the highway
More common than you may think. Emergency landings are often necessary with planes like these (ie, piston engined), and highways make fantastic runways. Just like landing on a busy runway but without ATC.
I do a lot of flight training, mainly on the Cessna 152 II (1981 Model). Quite prepared for scenarios such as engine failure just after takeoff, mid-flight and on approach. And I’m practising precautionary search - landing in an unprepared field and being able to takeoff again - if poor weather or sunset or low fuel.
They used to use bits of the Autobahn as temporary airstrips in the Cold War
The Swiss Air Force regularly practices operating from closed-off motorways (when they aren’t hangaring planes in actual hollowed-out mountains) . . .
One of the intended purposes of the interstate system was to help with military transport. That includes being able to land and launch planes
Plane enters footage on dash cam: Eurobeat intensifies
Anyone else notice those power lines that he miraculously avoided?
Rewatched and it was well after he landed but still impressed
Sorry for being picky but I think the family is the Geer family, not the Greer. It says that in the news video.
Waiting for someone to put initial D music over it..
FLY AWAY
Not sure how the plane had a fuel pump problem. 172s with carburetors don’t have fuel pumps.
Plane driver: bro u wanna roll race?
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