Assuming I remember how to make the coding work... here is a traffic stopper from last Tuesday:
Seems they took off and developed engine trouble. As in, the engine stopped working (yeah, that's trouble). When the pilot realized he wasn't going to make it back to the airport he looked for alternatives.
Actually, I'm pretty damn impressed. It's takes skill as well as luck to put a plane down on a road like that without anyone getting hurt.
Damn, not bad. Especially when you look at all the power lines and so on in the area as well. When I was in elementary a classmate of mine's father tried to bring one down on a residential street and tangled up into the power lines, killing him and two passengers.
Yeah, you can see the line he dragged down in the process, in the last pic. Very slick piece of work. If he was playing chauffeur for somebody, he just earned a raise.
Yes, his passengers all spoke very highly about how he handled the emergency - very calm, reassuring, levelheaded...
Exactly the sort of person you'd want on the controls during a crisis.
Word around the local airport today is that he's in the clear with the FAA, who are extremely happy no one was hurt. That leaves the NTSB, who are very curious as to why the engine up and quit in that manner, and they're as mum as they usually are, but no one is expecting that the pilot in any way contributed to the outage.
