WEISENBERG TWP., Pa – Two people made it out safe after an emergency plane landing on the highway. It happened on I-78 in Weisenberg Township Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
“In that area of the highway is the best I got,” an air traffic controller can be heard saying over audio.<\/p>\n
“Okay. We’ll do it,” the pilot of the plane can be heard saying.<\/p>\n
The emergency landing happened just before 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Moments earlier the pilot can be heard saying the plane had partial power.<\/p>\n
“It looks like you’re descending.\u00a0Are you not able to hold up?” asked an air traffic controller.<\/p>\n
“Negative,” the pilot responded.<\/p>\n
“The highway is just off your right,” the air traffic controller suggested.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, I don’t want to land on the highway,” said the pilot.<\/p>\n
“Driver came in later and said \u2018Hey, there’s a plane on the highway\u2019,” said Andrew Haldman, who works nearby.<\/p>\n
Haldman said he heard sirens earlier.<\/p>\n
“A couple of us came out to look and sure enough it’s right there,” said Haldman.<\/p>\n
According to Pennsylvania State Police, a 65-year-old man and his 34-year-old daughter, both from Michigan, were flying a 1995 Commander 114B plane from Readington Township, New Jersey to Indiana to attend the Final Four.<\/p>\n
While in route, the operator reported unknown engine problems and attempted to fly to a local airport in the area, but then landed onto I-78 Eastbound, mile marker 45.6, in Weisenberg Township, the release says.<\/p>\n
“They had engine trouble. They attempted to turn around and land at the Queen City Airport, but were unable to do so,” said Trooper Nathan Branosky.<\/p>\n
The emergency landing brought traffic to a halt for hours. Trooper Branosky said there was a minor fuel leak.<\/p>\n
“Fortunately, there were no injuries to anyone on board,” said Trooper Branosky.<\/p>\n
Butch Stopp said he was working in a field nearby when he heard about the landing on his phone.<\/p>\n
“Hardly anything like this here. Something different,” said Stopp.<\/p>\n
The plane has been towed away to Queen City Airport.<\/p>\n
“No one is hurt. Everything is good. Everyone can still get home for Easter hopefully,” said Haldman.<\/p>\n
There were also no injuries reported on the ground. State police say the FAA is investigating this emergency landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEISENBERG TWP., Pa – Two people made it out safe after an emergency plane landing on the highway.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":705482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[294350,70722,294352,294348,150432,50,93480,2832,294347,294349,67,132,68,294351],"class_list":["post-705481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-commander-114b","tag-emergency-landing","tag-engine-problems","tag-i-78","tag-lehigh-county","tag-news","tag-no-injuries","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-plane-landing","tag-traffic-detour","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-weisenberg-township"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116349555410918556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}