Ooopsie - small plane lands on Anchorage street

[Blue_In_AK]

http://www.adn.com/2014/01/07/3262446/official-small-plane-lands-on.html

The pilot of a small plane made a successful emergency landing on an East Anchorage street, and neither he nor two passengers were injured, police and fire officials said.

The red-and-white Cessna 172 Cutlass landed in a snowy median, without hitting any vehicles, on Boniface Parkway near Perry Drive a little after 1 p.m. After the landing, the pilot and passengers stepped out, and the single-engine plane could be seen resting in the middle of Boniface as vehicles drove past on each side.

The two lanes of traffic closest to the plane on the four-lane street were soon closed. Later,

Police Lt. Mark Thelen said the pilot reported losing power after taking off from Merrill Field. The plan, at that point, was to attempt a landing at Campbell Airstrip, but the pilot saw too many trees and instead turned toward the runways at Joint Base Elemendorf-Richardson, Thelen said.

He apparently noticed a break in traffic on Boniface and decided to put the plane down there, Thelen said.

"Obviously we don't have airplanes landing on the road very often," Thelen said.

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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. I have heard this from pilots

every time to do walk away from a crash, it is a good landing.

[longship]

3. Yup! There's that.

I've heard that one, too.

That plane looks unlikely to fly again. Do you think?

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Nope, and in Alaska small planes are vital

[uppityperson]

6. aw heck, a little bit of duct tape and it'll be fine

[longship]

7. I've got some bailing wire in the barn.

Let's get to work.

Undoubtedly Montgomery Scott would have appropriate words for the situation.

[Suburban Warrior]

9. Yep

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10434561-1.html

[Major Nikon]

14. A little duct tape, a little bondo, and the rest will buff out

[callous taoboy]

2. I once landed a Cessna in a field. No easy task.

Congratulations to the pilot. And hello BLUE!

[malaise]

5. Guess the snow helped

Lucky folks

[Jenoch]

8. Here is another amazing landing...

http://m.

[justiceischeap]

10. This is fake, ya know? nt

[tblue37]

15. Lower right hand corner, beginning of the film, warns,

"Fiction. Do not attempt." It was a Nissan commercial.

[Jenoch]

17. No way. I remember when this amazing landing happened.

I think it was at LAX.

[tblue37]

18. Look at the lower right hand corner at the beginning of the film. It says it is fiction. nt

[Jenoch]

19. They just don't want anyone else to attempt this.

Most pilots would not be able to pull it off.

[tblue37]

20. I see what you did there--though I admit I didn't see it the first time. nt

[Suburban Warrior]

11. Plane lands on 405

[Zorra]

12. That looks just like Maggie O'Connel's plane, out of Cicely, AK. nt

[Vinnie]

13. Emergency landing

One of the first things a student learns is to look for a place to land in case of an emergency. I prefer to land on a highway rather in the forest.

[LiberalElite]

16. last weekend

in NYC a small plane landed on a highway.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/01/04/small-plane-makes-emergency-landing-on-major-deegan-expressway/