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A sheriff’s office in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina released video on Facebook
Thursday of a pilot’s miraculous emergency landing on a four-lane highway and complimented the pilot’s skills.
“There were so many things that could have been catastrophic but they didn’t happen,” Swain County Sheriff Curtis Cochran said in his Facebook post. “What an OUTSTANDING job and no injuries.”
The pilot landed on U.S. 74 about 11:50 a.m. on what the video showed to be a partly cloudy Sunday, July 3.
“The pilot said the engine stalled and he had to set the plane down,” the sheriff’s office said in a July 3 Facebook post. “AMAZING If you look closely at 0:20 you will see the power lines the pilot was able to avoid,” according to the sheriff’s Facebook post.