In dire straits, 18-year-old Brock Peters mustered everything he could recall from his emergency landing training. He got his pilot's license four months ago.
On Monday, a single-engine plane with four people on board made an emergency landing on the road.
Authorities said an 18-year-old was flying family members from Apple Valley Airport to Riverside Airport when he heard a"pop" and decided to make an emergency landing in a safe area. "I can hear my grandma crying in the back," he said."I'm like 'I've got to tune her out, focus on what I need to do and get this plane down safely and make sure everybody is OK.'"
"From the air, the field right in front of me looks flat," the 18-year-old recalled."But once you get lower, it's trees, rocks, everything — just going to tear the plane up.""We're driving down here, down Route 66. I'm looking at all these wires and I'm thinking 'How did he land this?'" said father Shane Peters.
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