Wild video shows small plane in Texas barreling off runway into the road before crashing into passing car
Wild video shows a small plane overrunning a Texas runway during an emergency landing — rolling straight into a road and crashing into a passing car.
Footage filmed at Aero County Airport in McKinney on Saturday showed a single-engine plane crashing through a metal fence at the end of the runway and then T-boning a silver sedan driven by a woman on Virginia Parkway.
“I saw the airplane coming down the runway quickly, I knew that he wasn’t gonna have time to stop,” Jack Schneider, a fellow pilot who filmed the crash, told WFAA.
“It was clearly going too fast, the tires were smoking.”
Local motorist Shadi Hiwiadi noted that while drivers “check your left, you check your right, you don’t check up, though.”
“Yeah, it was crazy,” another onlooker, Youssef Moustafa, told the outlet.
“He was trying to land, and the brakes didn’t work and he went through the fence,” he said of the out-of-control pilot.
The McKinney Fire Department said there were two people in the plane. Both were examined along with the driver, who was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.
“She was definitely surprised, it’s not something you expect to have happen to you,” said Schneider, the pilot who filmed the crash. “We’re all thankful that nobody was hurt” seriously, he said of the scary scene.
None of those involved were identified.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the accident in McKinney, a mid-size city of approximately 200,000 residents about 32 miles north of Dallas.
