A small plane made an emergency landing on a San Diego highway, scattering fuel and debris and causing traffic delays, officials say. The plane clipped several cars, with two people on the ground taken to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries.
DEL MAR, Calif. -- A small airplane made an emergency landing on an interstate highway north of San Diego on Tuesday, clipping cars, slightly injuring some people and causing a huge traffic jam, authorities said.
The single-engine Piper PA-32 had mechanical problems after taking off from Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport and was trying to land in a nearby field but instead went down in the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 near Del Mar shortly after noon, authorities said. It clipped several cars and came to rest partially on the center divider.
Two people in the cars were taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries, including slight cuts from broken glass, according to the California Highway Patrol.Dane and Sarah Tribett of Austin, Texas, were in town to celebrate their eighth wedding anniversary when their Kia sedan was hit by the plane, although they escaped serious injuries.
“Glass shattered everywhere. All of a sudden we just see the plane in front of us,” Sarah Tribett told KSWB-TV. “We were scared out of our minds." “The people that were driving behind us drove by us after and let us know that it literally landed on top of our car,” she said. “There’s jet fuel all over the back of our back seat. All of my clothes are soaked and there’s just glass everywhere.”The freeway was shut down for more than four hours until a small fuel spill was cleaned up and the plane was hauled away.
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