Watch this plane make a dramatic emergency landing on a busy street in Washington state after a fuel system malfunction
Washington State Trooper Clint Thompson was driving along Pacific Avenue South, also known as State Route 7, just south of Seattle and west of Tacoma when he saw a KR2 single propeller plane descending closer and closer to the roadway. He realized it was actually going to land on the roadway, and turned on his emergency lights to block traffic to help the plane land.
Read MoreThe plane needed to make an earlier-than-scheduled pit stop"due to a fuel system malfunction," she added."When he went by me, I could've reached out and touched the tip of his wing. That's how close I was to that plane," a driver, Dennis Diessner, told CNN affiliate KOMO.It was the first time Thompson had assisted an airplane landing on a roadway in his 21 years as state trooper.No one was injured.
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