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A teenage pilot taking his family to breakfast made an emergency landing on a busy California highway when his grandmother broke down in tears in the seat behind him.
Brock Peters, 18, was flying with several family members from California’s Apple Valley Airport to the city of Riverside for breakfast on January 2 when his single-engine Piper PA-28 lost power, forcing him to frantically search for a car. place to land. KTTV-TV reported.
“We were going down the pass, and I heard the engine pop and I lost all power,” Peters, who recently got his pilot’s license, told the outlet.
Peters decided to put the plane down on the shoulder of Cajon Boulevard, also known as Historic Route 66, in El Cajon Pass, near Ontario, in San Bernardino County, shortly before 10 a.m.
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Brock Peters, 18, made an emergency landing with his family inside
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“At that point, I didn’t have the space or time to get to any other airport, and this was my only option, my only chance to get off,” Peters said. “I got under the power lines and tossed it aside.”
Peters said she drew on the training she received from the age of 16 and had to disconnect from her high-strung family, including her sobbing grandmother.
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Teenage pilot Brock Peters landed his plane in California’s El Cajon Pass.
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“I had my grandmother,” Peters said. “She was crying in the back. I had to unplug her and tune everyone in.”
Peters was able to land the plane without anyone on the ground or in the plane being injured.
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No one was injured after 18-year-old Brock Peters landed his disabled plane on the shoulder of a California highway.
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“When I felt the wheels hit the ground, that’s when I thought, ‘Okay, we’re good,'” Peters said.
The plane Peters was flying was a chartered one, and he says all the equipment was checked to be working properly before takeoff.
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The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the incident.
Peters said he hopes to fly again, adding that flying is his “passion” and that he wants to be an airline pilot.
