A driver certainly had the scare of his life when he was hit by a plane that crashed on a Minnesota highway Tuesday morning.
For the 32-year-old driver, who was traveling at high speed on Highway 81, a busy road in Brooklyn Park, a suburb of Minneapolis, everything on the road was normal when his vehicle was suddenly struck by a Piper Archer II, a small propeller plane, aircraft was captured at 10:32 a.m
Brooklyn Park police said that despite the unusual nature of the collision, the driver suffered only minor injuries. He still had to be transported to a hospital.
The Piper’s pilot, a 23-year-old man, was treated at the scene for minor injuries.
“The pilot attempted to make an emergency landing on Route 81. “He touched electrical wires, then landed on the ground and collided with the vehicle,” police summarized.
CBS television broadcast communications between the Crystal Airport control tower and the pilot.
“Have you lost your engine?” the controller can be heard asking the pilot. “I don’t think I have an engine. “I won’t go on the track,” the pilot replies calmly despite the situation.
Air traffic controllers then asked aircraft flying in the area to wait before approaching the airport. It was one of these waiting pilots who informed the control tower that the Piper had finally crashed on the highway.