On the Minnesota highway, the driver of a Kia Soul was driving carefully, following all traffic rules, but the trouble came not from other drivers, but straight from the sky…
Strange as it may sound, the car was hit by a light aircraft that was making an emergency landing. On November 28, the pilot of a Piper PA-28 aircraft of the Thunderbird Aviation School was flying through a dedicated air corridor when a malfunction occurred at 10:30 a.m., when the power supply was completely lost.
After receiving this signal, the controller at the tower of the neighboring airfield cleared the airspace for an emergency landing. But the plane did not arrive. Hearing the dispatcher’s request to clarify the situation, all the pilots of the other aircraft in the flight zone began to study the area.
After a while, the controller received a message from one of the pilots that the Piper PA-28 had landed on Highway 81 in Brooklyn Park, a suburb of Minneapolis.
As it turned out, the 23-year-old pilot had to make an emergency landing to avoid a plane crash. Since there were dense residential buildings around, he decided to get on the highway.
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Experts later concluded that the pilot had made the right decision. He successfully landed his emergency plane on the highway, minimizing the extent of the damage caused by the emergency.
The only thing that could not be avoided was a collision with a Kia Soul at the end of the landing. No one was injured in this airplane accident. The driver of the car was trying to avoid being hit by an airplane that was rapidly approaching him. The almost uncontrollable airplane pushed the Kia out of its lane, turned it around, and pushed it into the extreme extra pocket lane for a right turn.
Before that, during the descent, the plane cut several power lines, cutting off electricity for about 1,100 people for about an hour.
As a result of the incident, the pilot sustained minor injuries and was not taken to the hospital. The 32-year-old Kia driver, who had no one else in the car, was taken to the hospital with non-critical injuries.
Unlike in a classic accident, the pilot and driver did not try to find out who was to blame, did not give the right of way, did not miss or “buy a license.” While the firefighters, police, and ambulance arrived, the boys were talking politely and rejoicing that everything had ended well for them and the other road users.
