Skydiving Plane Had to Land on a Busy Highway in New Jersey
14th July 1981: 60-year-old Edith Summers leaps out of the plane on her 100th skydive, high over the fields of Nottinghamshire. She is as yet unchallenged in her claim to be the oldest female skydiver on either side of the Atlantic. (Photo by Ian Tyas/Keystone Features/Getty Images)
A single-engine plane made an emergency landing on a busy highway in New Jersey about 30 miles north of Atlantic City. But somehow the pilot missed all the cars, and a camera on an overpass got it on video.
He started having engine problems at 4,000 feet and couldn’t make it to an airport. So he landed on the road, then managed to swerve onto the median where there was a long patch of grass. A skydiving instructor on board ended up with a cut on his arm, and the plane has some damage from hitting a few road signs, but that’s it!
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