A small plane made an emergency landing on the street in a Lackawanna County neighborhood Sunday night.
Only minor injuries were reported after the Piper Cherokee landed on a small stretch of road on Stone Street in Moosic around 8:45 p.m., WBRE/WYOU is reporting.
Aviation officials told WNEP the plane had taken off from Vermont and was heading towards the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport but never made it.
“The guy drove right up the street, right up the street, which was crazy with an airplane, he clipped a couple poles, took them down," Dan Wayno, of Moosic, told WNEP. "Nobody died, he didn’t hit a house, he didn’t hurt anybody. He must have been a pretty good pilot.”
Moosic police confirmed that calls of engine failure are what prompted the landing, WBRE reports.
According to reports, the pilot and a passenger were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The power was out for some time, and crews worked through the night to clean up spilled fuel, according to reports.
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