Forced landing on a city highway, from the cockpit.

[sleemanj]

Check out this CNN video, keep watching through as I thought the first time they restarted that it must have been a practice, but no.....

 

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

 

Shameless link plug for my own club's video gallery to which I've embedded it, there's some good stuff there if you're killing time:Video

 

 

[BLA82]

That was great footage, you have to love at the end when he apologises to his Pax and the pax replies with "that was awesome"

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

Wonder what the problem was with the first one, seemed to want to fire up again. Fuel blockage or dirty filter ?...................

 

 

[sleemanj]

At this link is a video interview with the pilot.

 

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/emergency_landing_042109

 

WINTER HAVEN,As a flight instructor, Kyle Davis teaches his students how to make emergency landings. On Sunday, he got put to the test.

"I was incredibly lucky," Davis told FOX 13. "It was a whole bunch of luck and a little bit of experience."

 

Davis, and his passenger, a professional videographer, left Gilbert Field in Winter Haven around 10:30 a.m. They were on their way to the Sun 'N Fun Fly in, a 15-minute flight.

 

Since so many other planes were flying there as well, Davis's passenger told FOX 13 that they thought "it would be cool" to video their trip.

 

Just minutes after taking off, the engine conked out. Davis got it going again, then it stopped a second time. Then, a third.

 

"He was just awesome," said John Amundsen, who taught Davis to fly. "I just hope if I ever have a situation like that, I am as cool as Kyle was."

 

As the plane got closer and closer to the ground, Davis had to make a split-second decision. Land in a nearby lake, or on Havendale Boulevard -- one of Winter Haven's busiest streets.

 

For whatever reason, there was no traffic on his side of Havendale, so Davis set her down there.

 

Now people around the world are watching what happened on YouTube. By Tuesday, it had gotten thousands of hits.

 

Even though Davis may have nerves of steel, a number of words on the video are bleeped out.

 

"I was saying my prayers," Davis said. "I was saying my prayers."