Surpassing|Small plane crashes into car after overshooting runway during emergency landing near Dallas

2025-05-07 10:39:22source:Evander Elliscategory:Finance

MCKINNEY,Surpassing Texas (AP) — A small plane overshot the runway while landing at a Texas airport over the weekend and struck a car driving along a nearby road, injuring one person, authorities said.

Video shows the propeller plane smash through a fence during an emergency landing in the Dallas suburb of McKinney on Saturday. It then bounced and skidded onto the road, losing a wheel and colliding with a silver sedan that was driving perpendicular to the single-engine plane’s path.

“I saw the airplane coming down the runway quickly I knew that he wasn’t gonna have time to stop,” Jack Schneider, a bystander who recorded footage of the crash on his phone, told WFAA-TV. “It was clearly going too fast, the tires were smoking.”

Following the afternoon crash, medics evaluated both people in the plane and took the car’s driver to the hospital with minor injuries, according to a statement from the McKinney Fire Department.

The flight originated in Midland, a Texas oilpatch city 330 miles (531 kilometers) west of Dallas, and had been attempting an emergency landing at the Aero Country Airport, the fire department said.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the cause of the crash.

More:Finance

Recommend

As a diversity grant dies, young scientists fear it will haunt their careers

Adelaide Tovar, a University of Michigan scientist who researches genes related to diabetes, used to

Retail theft, other shrink factors drained $112B from stores last year

A flash mob-style ransacking in Philadelphia Tuesday night and other incidents could have retailers

Michael Gambon, who played Dumbledore in 'Harry Potter,' dies at 82

Actor Michael Gambon, who was best known for playing Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series of