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Tue Feb 9, 2021, 08:51 AM Feb 2021

'Very lucky' pilot unhurt after landing plane on Pa. Turnpike, getting hit by tractor-trailers

A pilot was safe Monday evening after he landed a small plane on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Lebanon County.

Mark Sites, who described himself as a first responder with the Pa. Turnpike, said the plane was experiencing engine failure and needed to make an emergency landing.

Turnpike Commission spokesman Carl DeFebo told WGAL TV-8 described the aircraft as a “propeller plane.”

Sites said after landing, the plane was hit by a tractor-trailer that pushed it into a snowbank, then was hit in the back by another tractor-trailer.

Despite all of that, there were no injuries reported in the crash.

“He was very lucky,” Sites said.

Sites, who did not know why the pilot chose to land on the turnpike, speculated that he might have been looking for the closest thing to a runway.

Link: https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/02/he-was-very-lucky-emergency-responder-says-engine-failure-brought-down-a-plane-on-pa-turnpike.html

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'Very lucky' pilot unhurt after landing plane on Pa. Turnpike, getting hit by tractor-trailers (Original Post) modrepub Feb 2021 OP
Lucky that he wasn't in western PA then FakeNoose Feb 2021 #1
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