Thankfully and amazingly, nobody was seriously injured as a result.
Two people on board a small plane and three people in the two vehicles it crashed into managed to escape serious injury after it made an emergency landing on a residential street in Florida earlier this week.
Surveillance footage captured a twin-engine Cessna 402B aircraft making an emergency landing on a residential street on Wednesday, October 18.
Surveillance footage captured a small place as it made an emergency landing on a residential street in St. Petersburg, Florida, shortly before 4pm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=0j3CG7tY4L0
Clip via Troy Jones via Storyful
According to reports, the plane hit trees, power lines and two vehicles on its way down to the ground and there was also a small burst of flames, but nobody was seriously injured as a result.
Emergency services attended the scene and four people were treated in hospital after the incident, while the pilot was credited by locals for managing the minimise the impact.
“Where I looked up and could see him going sideways, it was right over where the school was, and if he would’ve gone down over there, he would’ve probably hit children, because kids were getting out of school,” Tabitha Callihan
told wtnh.com.
