Marine veteran has emergency landing on North Carolina highway

A pilot flying in North Carolina made a daring emergency touchdown on a freeway, efficiently weaving via visitors and ultimately coming to a whole cease. 

The harrowing video was caught on the pilot’s GoPro digital camera. 

On July 3, Florida resident Vincent Fraser left a property close to Fontana Lake in Swain County. Fraser was flying a single-engine aircraft together with his father-in-law when the engine began to fail. Fraser’s solely possibility was to try to land on US Route 19.

“I began going via my guidelines, and I used to be capable of get the plane to restart and sort of fly a bit bit, however she would solely fly for 3 to five seconds, after which she would come again down and begin to sink once more,” Fraser recalled to Information 13. He added, “By the grace of God, I appeared to my left, and also you couldn’t see it earlier than as a result of, you understand, it’s simply all valleys and mountains, however there’s a highway — that highway that I landed on excellent there, completely lined up.”

Swain County Sheriff Curtis Cochran praised the pilot’s “excellent” touchdown, noting how Fraser was capable of weave across the energy traces. 

“There have been so many issues that might have been catastrophic, however they didn’t occur,” Cochran wrote.

The emergency touchdown, which Cochran known as “AMAZING,” resulted in no accidents to anybody on the highway or the pilot.

Fraser is a flight attendant for Allegiant and has a few 12 months’s price of solo flying expertise. Earlier than pursuing flying, Fraser was a Marine.

“I sort of went into this mentality that I had once I was within the Marine Corps. So, it was simply, I needed to save Jeff, that’s my goal was to save lots of our lives, and save the folks on the bottom and with as little injury as potential,” Fraser informed WINK Information.

After vital repairs have been made, the aircraft took off as soon as once more from North Carolina.