(Daily Mail) The pilot and passenger of a small single-engine plane managed to walk away without a scratch after crash-landing on a California freeway on Tuesday afternoon.
Andrew Cho who was piloting the Piper Cherokee lost engine power and so decided to use the 91 Freeway near Corona in Riverside County, east of LA, as a runway.
Dashcam footage captured the dramatic moment the aircraft managed to come down in between cars at about 12:30pm in the eastbound lanes.
The landing was almost flawless until one of the wings clipped a passing pickup truck, ripping one of its wings and spinning the plane around spreading flammable fuel across the surface of the road.
A small plane could be seen coming in for a crash landing on a busy California freeway
The plane clipped a pickup truck sending it onto its side as it careered across the lanes
The burned remains of a small airplane that crashed on the 91 Freeway, west of the 15 Freeway in Corona are photographed on Tuesday
Although the aircraft caught fire, no injuries were reported with the pilot and his passenger escaping unscathed
Smoke could be seen billowing from the fuel which leaked all over the roadway. The aircraft came to rest at the side of the road
The plane burst into flames as it careered across the lanes of the freeway before coming to rest on the shoulder.
Seconds later, passing drivers captured the moment Cho and his business partner passenger escaped from the burning wreck with their lives as thick black smoke billowed into the air.
‘It felt like a hard bump. Hard to describe,’ Cho told KTLA. ‘We were four to five feet in the air when the plane stalled completely and fell to the ground.’
Cho said it was all down to training that he was able to make the crash landing successfully.
‘Your training kicks in and you do the right thing. As long as you don’t panic, you get the best outcome,’ he explained.
