Plane Narrowly Dodges Traffic in Highway Emergency Landing

A flight instructor and student narrowly avoided tragedy when engine trouble forced them to make a desperate emergency landing on a busy highway. Minutes after taking off from Pensacola International Airport in Florida on Monday morning, the Piper PA-28 Cherokee suffered a critical malfunction, forcing the pilot onto Interstate 10, where he skillfully dodged traffic to touch down. “We do now have a burning oil smell in the cockpit. I don’t know if we’re going to make the airport. We are not making the airport, we’re going down on I-10,” the pilot warned air traffic control as the situation deteriorated. Trucker Eric Jordan captured video of the near-miss as the aircraft descended over his cab. “If I wouldn’t have seen that shadow over my truck and slowed down, he would have been in the side of the cab. As you saw in the video, it was a close call with the truck and the sign, but he landed; he kept it in control,” Jordan recalled. “Everyone was safe—he was a really good pilot, he was a good instructor, it was a miracle that he landed the thing with no problem,” Jordan added.

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