AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Flight instructor, 21, lands plane on Florida interstate after engine fails — flying under highway signs to avoid traffic
A 21-year-old flight instructor with 1,300 hours of experience glided a failing aircraft under highway signage and onto a busy Pensacola interstate after losing her engine mid-lesson, a landing one trucker called a "miracle." Emily Shelton was conducting a flight lesson with a student pilot on his very first outing when she smelled oil fumes […] The post Flight instructor, 21, lands plane on Florida interstate after engine fails — flying under highway signs to avoid traffic appeared first on American Almanac .
A 21-year-old flight instructor with 1,300 hours of experience glided a failing aircraft under highway signage and onto a busy Pensacola interstate after losing her engine mid-lesson, a landing one trucker called a "miracle." Emily Shelton was conducting a flight lesson with a student pilot on his very first outing when she smelled oil fumes filling the cockpit. The oil pressure gauge had dropped into the red. Within moments, the engine quit entirely, and Shelton found herself managing a dead aircraft over one of Florida's busiest east-west corridors, Interstate 10 near Pensacola. Her radio calls to air traffic control, captured in audio reviewed by The Sun , trace the emergency in real time. Shelton reported the oil pressure failure,…Open