Emergency Landing Caught On Camera

Florida Winter Haven GREAT VIDEO Pilot lands on same street he normally drives to work on.

by CBS News

Published: Thu, April 23, 2009 - 11:02 am CST

LAKELAND, Fla. (CBS) ― Two pilots got the scare of their lives April 19 when the home-built plane they were flying suddenly stopped functioning. The amazing incident was caught on tape.

Kyle Davis, who was flying the plane, and passenger Joe Surowiec have plenty of piloting experience, but weren't prepared for what happened on their way to a Florida air show.

The engine suddenly conked out over Winter Haven and the two men were forced to make an emergency landing on a busy roadway. Davis landed the plane safely on the road and then pulled up to a store front, according to CBS affiliate WTSP-TV in Tampa.

The entire incident was caught on tape.

The pilots spoke with CBS Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith about the harrowing experience Thursday. Davis and Surowiec told Smith they have hundreds of hours of piloting experience but mostly chalked their survival up to luck.

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KxVicious Says:

Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:42 pm

Oh! I didn’t hear him say that!

Oyawellfuku Says:

Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:44 am

You do realize that in the full video you hear the man say “Land in the feild” and the piolate stating “It is to far away I wont make it.”

+ the plane also started back up again and they were trying to return back to airfeild, noted by the sharp right hand turn… When the plane finally shut off he made the emergancy landing on the road.

The plane was rapidly decending - so the feild was to far away - not an option.

KxVicious Says:

Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:04 pm

“conked out” LOL.

If if wasn’t a stunt, why didn’t he land in the field like the passenger kept saying?

He could have taken out a lot of people landing on the street! What if a car had been there???