In Minnesota, the plane urgently sat on the highway and crashed into a car

The plane that made an emergency landing on the freeway on Wednesday evening, December 2, crashed into an SUV: other motorists had to sharply hit the brakes so as not to get into an accident, writes Star Tribune.

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In this story, all the components of a catastrophe were present. But, surprisingly, no one was injured in the accident. It all happened on Wednesday, December 2, at around 21:30 pm on I-35W North near County Road E2 in Arden Hills, Minnesota.

"Luck is the wrong word, but I feel like it was a miracle that we all survived and no one was hurt," said Brittany Yurick, the driver of the SUV.

40-year-old Eurek from Maple Grove was returning home from work when a single-engine Bellanca Viking plane literally fell from the sky. The Minnesota Department of Transportation video showed that the plane flew past two other vehicles, landed in front of them, and then cut off the SUV from the driver's side and stopped.

David Stratioti and his wife were traveling north on I-35W through New Brighton and the Arden Hills when they saw a small plane ahead of them, low on the horizon.

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Stratioti believed the plane was headed to the Anoka-Blaine County Airport, but it was still several miles away.

“He was flying too low for where we were,” Stratioti noted.

A few seconds later, when Stratioti approached the E2 highway, he saw the plane crash.

“We stopped and watched as the pilot and passenger got off the plane and walked over to the SUV to check that everything was OK,” said Stratioti, who called 911 and waited for first responders to arrive.

CAUGHT ON CAMERA: MnDOT's cameras caught the moment a small plane landed on 35W in the Twin Cities Wednesday evening. | https://t.co/uKOAcWcwIj pic.twitter.com/MYixW8WJRB

- WCCO - CBS Minnesota (@WCCO) December 3, 2020

Dozens of firefighters, police officers, military personnel and paramedics arrived at the scene. Yurik remembered a man in a blue robe and glasses, who stopped to check her condition, the pilot and another person from the plane. Other witnesses also stopped.

Eurek praised the pilot, whom the patrol identified as 52-year-old Craig Gifford of Minneapolis, a professional pilot. Gifford represented the United States in international competitions in 2017 and 2019 in the no-limit aerobatic team, which won the bronze medal at the 2017 World Championships in South Africa.

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“If it weren’t for the pilot’s experience, this could have ended very differently for all of us. He was very kind to me and apologized. “I’m so grateful that out of all the planes that could potentially hit my car, it was this one,” Yurick said.

The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the incident.

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