Ooopsie - small plane lands on Anchorage street [View all]

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http://www.adn.com/2014/01/07/3262446/official-small-plane-lands-on.html

The pilot of a small plane made a successful emergency landing on an East Anchorage street, and neither he nor two passengers were injured, police and fire officials said.

The red-and-white Cessna 172 Cutlass landed in a snowy median, without hitting any vehicles, on Boniface Parkway near Perry Drive a little after 1 p.m. After the landing, the pilot and passengers stepped out, and the single-engine plane could be seen resting in the middle of Boniface as vehicles drove past on each side.

The two lanes of traffic closest to the plane on the four-lane street were soon closed. Later,

Police Lt. Mark Thelen said the pilot reported losing power after taking off from Merrill Field. The plan, at that point, was to attempt a landing at Campbell Airstrip, but the pilot saw too many trees and instead turned toward the runways at Joint Base Elemendorf-Richardson, Thelen said.

He apparently noticed a break in traffic on Boniface and decided to put the plane down there, Thelen said.

"Obviously we don't have airplanes landing on the road very often," Thelen said.

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