Pilot crash-lands in woman’s driveway, mere feet from parked car, Georgia police say
A pilot narrowly missed a parked car when he crash-landed in a woman’s driveway, just feet from her south Georgia home, news outlets reported.
The single-engine Bushby Mustang crashed around 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 2, in a residential neighborhood in Statesboro, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The pilot was the only person on board.
Photos from the scene show the wrecked aircraft resting in the homeowner’s driveway next to a parked red car, WTOC reported.
The homeowner recalled the moment she saw the plane go down.
“I saw something white fly by the windows,” Virginie Ems-Bleneau told WJCL. “A plane crashed in my driveway with a man inside, who is still responding.”
The pilot, who wasn’t named, was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, The Statesboro Herald reported, citing police.
“The pilot was ambulatory and did not appear to be seriously injured,” Statesboro Police Chief Mike Broadhead told the newspaper. “He was taken for medical treatment as a precaution.”
The FAA’s online registry shows the fixed-wing plane was built in 1996 and is registered to BlueSkys Inc. in Wilmington, Delaware. The incident comes just days after two people were killed in a small plane crash near a popular hiking trail in metro Atlanta, McClatchy News reported.
The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the Statesboro crash.
Statesboro is about 55 miles northwest of Savannah.
This story was originally published November 3, 2022 at 9:32 AM with the headline "Pilot crash-lands in woman’s driveway, mere feet from parked car, Georgia police say."