CAUGHT ON TAPE: Plane Lands In Busy Intersection During Rush Hour

Nobody hurt.

Drivers at intersections often have to beware of lunkheads texting behind the wheel, pedestrians or perhaps someone who's accelerating to make the light.

But an airplane landing? Definitely out of the ordinary.

Watch a small plane make an emergency landing at an Irvine, California, intersection near John Wayne Airport last week. During rush hour. Dash-cam video of the incident was posted Sept. 18 by CalicoStrike, who noted there were no injuries.

The Orange County Register confirmed that no one, including the instructor and student pilot aboard the aircraft, was hurt.

The student was piloting the Piper Cherokee upon takeoff from the airport when the engine stopped, the Coast Report Online noted. Then the instructor seized the controls, guiding the plane safely down the street:

One small airplane landed on Red Hill Avenue, Irvine this evening.

One onlooker, Rudy de Leon, told Coast Report Online: "You don’t expect to see a plane land on the street in front of you every day.”

You can say that again.

H/T Pixable

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