A small plane crashed into the back of a pickup truck while making an emergency landing on a busy Florida highway Saturday, but miraculously no one was injured in the dramatic incident.
Video footage obtained from the sheriff’s office shows a Cessna 172 brushing past the truck as it approached the ground for a full landing on a road in Fort Meyers around 11:45 a.m. Saturday.
The plane made an emergency landing after the pilot reported an engine problem, according to a statement from the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA).
The plane took off from Sebring, Florida, around 11 a.m. Saturday before making an emergency landing about 50 minutes later, according to flight tracking data.
There were two people on board the plane and the van was traveling eastbound on Bayshore Road.
No injuries were reported at the scene, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.
“This couldn’t have been a better outcome. Grateful doesn’t come close!” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno shared a message addressed to X.
LCSO Patrol & Florida Department of Transportation safely moved the plane while the FAA works to conduct the investigation, Marceno added.
The FAA is the lead agency investigating the incident.
The emergency landing comes a week after a business jet carrying nine people plunged into a South Florida neighborhood and turned into a giant fireball.
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