Brock Peters, 18, lands plane on California road carrying cousins and weeping grandmother four months after getting pilot license
But after he had brought the rented plane to its cruising altitude, Peters heard that “boom”, and his attempts to restart the engine failed. Already, he said, the plane was losing altitude, and as he tried to restart the engine he was also starting to think about where to make an emergency landing, skills he had practiced for his pilot’s examination.
“If I land there, we’re going to get serious injuries, and the plane is going to be completely destroyed,” he recalled thinking. There was one car coming on the road toward him, he recalled, but it pulled off the road and out of the way of the descending plane. Another car traveling in the same direction was safely out of range.
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