Who needs a runway?
This is the moment motorists in Missouri were shocked to see a small plane joining them along a highway when the pilot made an emergency landing in their midst.
The twin-engine Beechcraft BE50 was on final approach to the municipal airport in Lee’s Summit about 2 p.m. Tuesday when one of its engines failed, according to the Kansas City Star.
Video shot by a motorist shows the yellow and white aircraft overflying several vehicles on eastbound I-470 before making the emergency landing some two miles short of the airport.
No injuries or damage to cars were reported as a result of the incident.
From the nearby Douglas Street Bridge, Mary and Gailand Coop saw the plane coming down.
“I looked up and there was a bright yellow plane, really, really close going over. And I go, ‘Oh, my gosh! That plane is low,” Mary Coop told KMBC.
“At first, it looked like he was lining up with the median strip to make a grass landing in the middle and I think he looked over and sees that he’s going about the same speed as the traffic, and the traffic had an opening,” Gailand Coop said.
“He could hit a car. He could have hit the ground and exploded. It was wild. It happened so quickly,” Mary said.
The only damage to the plane was a scratch when it grazed a DOT sign.
A pilot made an emergency landing on Interstate 470 in Lee’s Summit, MO.kansascity.com“Any time you’re landing any kind of aircraft on a major interstate and you can come out with zero injuries and no real collateral damage, that’s just short of a miracle?” Sgt. Andy Bell of the Missouri Highway Patrol told KMBC.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the mishap
