Friday, April 23, 2010

83-year-old makes emergency landing on highway

Washington - A flight-Opi (83) has laid with his mini-pilots an exemplary emergency landing on a highway.
The spry senior Squelia Ralph was traveling with his light aircraft when he suddenly had to make an emergency landing because of engine trouble. The only way for the emergency landing: a highway.
Newspapers reported as motorists watched in horror the dangerous maneuvers. But the plane was able to put on his grandpa Hummelbird machine with flying colors on the busy street.
The plane just touched with a wing will be a light poles and then came to a halt on the Steitenstreifen. The pilot remained intact. "It was a perfect landing," said Squelia, flying since 1944. The police assured him that he would receive no penalty term.