A small plane landed on a busy road in Georgia on Monday and crashed into three vehicles, dislodging a fuel tank into one of them. The single-engine 2010 Hawker Beechcraft BE-36 made an emergency landing around 12:10 p.m. at an intersection in Gainesville, Georgia, due to engine issues, the Associated Press reported. According to Gainesville Police Capt. Kevin Holbrook, two people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries following the emergency landing. “The fact that no one was seriously injured or killed is just astonishing,” Holbrook said about the crash. Authorities said the plane was carrying an experienced pilot and a student pilot, neither of whom was injured. Pilot Thomas Rogers told WAGA-TV that the landing occurred after they lost their engine on takeoff and “realized we weren’t going to make it back given how far out we were, so we came down the road.” The airplane had taken off from Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport, approximately 8.8 miles from Browns Bridge Road, where it landed. The Daily Beast has contacted the Federal Aviation Administration and Gainesville police for comment.
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