Wild Moment Plane Lands on Highway and Narrowly Misses Traffic

Kristal Ewing A small plane plummeted onto a highway and came within feet of crushing a family of four heading home from a Mother’s Day hike. The Cessna C150, with only its pilot aboard, dropped onto U.S. 80 in Superior, Arizona, just before 1:30 p.m. local time Sunday after losing power moments after departing Superior Municipal Airport, the New York Post reported. Kristal Ewing, whose dashcam captured the orange-and-white aircraft hurtling toward her truck, can be heard exclaiming, “Oh my God, why is he so low?” before her husband swung the family’s vehicle onto the median—parking them right under the wing as the plane bounced along the deserted highway toward Mesa, Arizona. It then clipped a roadside sign, almost flipped forward, and skidded to rest on the central reservation. The Ewings’ truck escaped with just a scuff from the propeller, and the pilot walked away unhurt. “This could have ended so much worse, but I’m just really thankful that we were all able to walk away. Everyone, even the pilot, was OK,” Ewing told AZFamily . The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating. Read it at New York Post Read more at The Daily Beast.

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