A small airplane made a dramatic crash touchdown on a California freeway on Tuesday, hitting a truck filled with other people prior to bursting into flames.

The airplane crashed into the eastbound lanes of the highway of the 91 Freeway in Riverside County close to Lincoln Avenue simply after 12:30 p.m., the California Highway Patrol told KTLA.

Heart-stopping photos acquired by way of the hole displays the airplane drop out of the sky and contact down in the course of site visitors prior to skidding off against the shoulder, leaving in the back of a path of burning jet gasoline.

The pilot and passenger onboard had been each ready to get themselves out of the airplane safely CHP stated. The airplane additionally crashed right into a truck with 3 other people inside of, who had been additionally thankfully unhurt.

CHP stated that the pilot claimed to have made an emergency touchdown at the highway after experiencing engine failure because it headed against Corona Municipal Airport to land.

“(We’re) very lucky as of late that the site visitors used to be gentle, and the pilot seems to have made some excellent touchdown navigation that have shyed away from what may have been an excessively unhealthy tragedy,” CHP Capt Levi Miller instructed KTLA.

Video launched by way of the Corona Fire Department shows the plane engulfed in flames and emitting huge plumes of smoke prior to a firefighter douses the plane with a water. Another picture from the dept shows the charred stays of the airplane at the freeway.

The eastbound lane of the freeway used to be close down for a number of hours as government investigated the crash and got rid of particles, inflicting primary site visitors delays.