A small airplane made an emergency landing Sunday night on the 55 Freeway in Costa Mesa.
*Update* experienced Pilot performs emergency landing safely on NB 55 at Del Mar. pic.twitter.com/jDYM3nneoc
— Costa Mesa FD (@CMFD_PIO) January 29, 2018
Video: Breathtaking scene of small plane making nighttime emergency landing on #California freeway https://t.co/eGTath7ehr pic.twitter.com/Thy7yEAt9u
— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) January 29, 2018
The plane landed a little before 8 pm after experiencing engine failure. The plane did not hit any vehicles and no one was injured in the plane or on the freeway.
The North Hollywood man who landed a small plane on an #OC freeway tonight told @NBCLA he went his his "gut." "I didn't know if I was going to make it." https://t.co/2FVuyRf3yf #NBCLA pic.twitter.com/nhWUuCwLU7
— Whitney Ashton (@whit_ashton) January 29, 2018
“I saw an opening on the highway and I went for it right away,” said the pilot, Izzy Slod, told NBC 4. “I had to make a last-minute, last-second judgment on whether or not we could make it over, and we didn’t have the airspeed to make it over, so I went under it.”
Costa Mesa Fire Capt. Chris Coatez told KTLA that it was a “complete miracle” that traffic was light on the freeway at the time of the landing.
