A small aircraft collides with a car on a busy roadway in Minnesota.
Both the pilot and the driver of the small plane were hurt when it crashed into their vehicle on a busy Twin Cities roadway on Tuesday morning.
About six miles northwest of Minneapolis, in the southbound lanes of Highway 81 (Bottineau Boulevard) close to West Broadway Avenue, is where the incident occurred at approximately 10:32 a.m., according to Brooklyn Park police.
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The plane lost power as it approached Crystal Airport, according to the police. After that, the pilot made an emergency landing roughly 2.5 miles to the northwest of the runway.
Before crashing into an automobile, the aircraft clipped multiple power lines during its descent. Both the pilot and the driver had minor injuries.
According to Brooklyn Park Fire Chief Shawn Conway, “the fact that (the pilot) impacted one vehicle and was able to put the aircraft down… is probably a testament to his skills as a pilot.”
The Piper Cherokee, according to WCCO, is owned by Thunderbird Aviation.
The Recordings of Air Control Traffic Control
The single-engine Piper Cherokee took off at approximately 7:15 a.m., according to flight data, from Crystal Airport. It took off and landed in South Dakota.
Air traffic control tapes between the pilot and the tower were obtained by WCCO.
An air traffic controller asked, “Did you lose power?”
“I don’t believe I am powerful. The pilot said, “I can’t make it to the runway.”
The tower then issues an order for other planes to divert.
Just make a circle around your current location. There is an urgent situation. “I will notify you as soon as you can arrive,” stated the air traffic controller.
A pilot in the air later reports to the tower what transpired on the ground.
“Contact, he’s on the highway,” another pilot reported.
The air traffic controller asked, “He’s on Highway 694? 81?”
The other pilot answered, “I think that would be, one second, that would be 81.
After being stopped for a few hours, southbound Highway 81 was finally reopened late on Tuesday afternoon.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are looking into it.
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