A pilot of a single-engine plane made an emergency landing on the CTFastrak busway in West Hartford, Connecticut, over the weekend.
Danny Hall of Torrington said he experienced engine problems and lost power while flying the Skyline Cessna from Robertson Field in Plainville to Hartford-Brainard Airport on Saturday afternoon.
A plane lost power, couldn't get Brainard, and landed on busway Flatbush/Newfield.
— Brian Foley (@LtFoley) November 29, 2014
Hall said he called the airport to have workers there tell his four kids he loved them in case he didn't survive. Then, he said, he put the plane down on a road with no traffic on it, which turned out to be the under-construction busway, slated to open in late March.
Federal officials are investigating.
Hall said he also survived a plane crash in 2008 into the Pawcatuck River in Westerly, Rhode Island, and is considering giving up flying.
This report includes information from The Associated Press.
