“About 15 minutes into the flight, I heard a boom from the engine. At that point I’m like, OK, that’s not good,” Brock Peters told The Times.
An 18-year-old pilot hoping to fly his grandmother and cousins to Riverside for breakfast had to kick into emergency mode when the engine on the small plane he was captaining failed.
Peters had trained for what to do in engine failure situations, but when he practiced, he always knew that if something went wrong he could turn the engine back on.He could hear his grandmother crying in the plane but tuned out the emotions of his passengers to focus on finding a spot to land. The fields near the plane looked rocky, and trees made the landing seem far from safe, Peters said.Although the road was smooth, landing on the highway presented other difficulties.
His passengers “were shocked,” he said. “I think everybody just had a deep breath. Nobody was hurt and the plane was completely intact.”
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