'Originally there were no options,' says pilot who landed his plane on a North Carolina highway
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When the engine on his small plane failed three times, Vincent Fraser had no choice but to make an emergency landing in mountainous terrain just south of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
(CNN) — When the engine on his small plane failed three times, Vincent Fraser had no choice but to make an emergency landing in mountainous terrain just south of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
GoPro video of his perilous landing in western North Carolina shows Fraser maneuvering his single-engine plane under power lines and into a highway's center turn lane, with cars traveling in two lanes on either side.
Fraser, who was flying with his father-in-law, spoke about his harrowing July 3 landing Monday morning on CNN's "New Day."
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