Folks driving up and down a Turkish highway recently must have had the fright of their lives as a plane started flying towards them, dangerously low.
No runway, no problem. I’ll just land here on this mountain slope.
The dramatic scene unfolded on a street near Bruges, Belgium, on Friday afternoon, where people on the ground heard an explosion and looked up to see the plane slowly floating down.
The novice pilot tried restarting the engine three times, but each time it shut down and eventually turned off completely, leaving him and his father-in-law in a life-and-death situation.
A small single-engine plane made an emergency landing on a highway in California, crashing straight into a couple who happened to be celebrating their wedding anniversary.
After student pilot Brian Parsley took off on his first solo cross-country flight, he was forced to make an emergency landing following engine failure.
Two planes collided recently in Colorado, but thankfully no one was hurt, thanks to a parachute system and some very good fortune.
77-year-old John Wildey was the only passenger aboard a Cessna 172 flying from Skegness to Sandtoft Airfield, near Doncaster, when the pilot fell gravely ill and passed out. John naturally did what any true legend does and landed the plane himself, completely in the dark.