• iconNews
  • videos
  • entertainment
  • Home
  • News
    • UK News
    • US News
    • Australia
    • Ireland
    • World News
    • Weird News
    • Viral News
    • Sport
    • Technology
    • Science
    • True Crime
    • Travel
  • Entertainment
    • Celebrity
    • TV & Film
    • Netflix
    • Music
    • Gaming
    • TikTok
  • LAD Originals
    • Say Maaate to a Mate
    • Daily Ladness
    • Lad Files
    • UOKM8?
    • FreeToBe
    • Extinct
    • Citizen Reef
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • UNILAD
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
Snapchat
TikTok
YouTube

LAD Entertainment

YouTube

LAD Stories

Submit Your Content
Plane makes emergency landing in the middle of UK dual carriageway and brings traffic to a standstill

Home> News> UK News

Published 05:35 11 Aug 2023 GMT+1

Plane makes emergency landing in the middle of UK dual carriageway and brings traffic to a standstill

The plane landed on the crash barrier and blocked traffic both ways with its wings.

Keryn Donnelly

Keryn Donnelly

Featured Image Credit: SWNS.

Topics: News, UK News

Keryn Donnelly
Keryn Donnelly

Advert

Advert

Advert

A plane has crash landed on a busy dual carriageway and blocked traffic in both directions in the middle of peak hour.

Police were called to the A40 Golden Valley Bypass in Gloucestershire shortly before 6pm on Thursday night after a light aircraft made an emergency landing on the grassy central reservation between lanes near Gloucestershire Airport.

Photos show the yellow plane, which has now been moved off the road by emergency services, blocking both the lanes with its wings and traffic queued in both directions.

Gloucestershire Police said that no one was injured and no other vehicles were involved in the incident.

Advert

Traffic was held up for more than an hour until the plane was removed from the road.

SWNS

Lee Trunks told the Daily Mail he was driving on the carriageway when the plane landed.

"It was quite early on as everyone was stopping. The wings of the plane completely spanned the lane I was in, so I indicated to the inside lane," he said.

He continued: "As I drove past some people were trying to help the pilot out of the stricken plane. I continued my journey and as I got to Arle Court roundabout the police were starting to close the carriage way.

Advert

"It looked like the pilot managed to down the plane in the perfect place to not cause any harm considering it was towards the end of rush hour."

Witnesses and people on social media have praised the pilot for landing the plane safely and only causing minimal damage to the crash barriers on the dual carriageway.

"Well done to the pilot in their handling of an emergency landing. Minor damage to crash barriers and no lives lost. Top Man!" one person tweeted.

Another added: "I mean it is unusual but better than landing in someone's back garden."

A third said: "How brave was that pilot? Amazing."

  • How to switch off UK government emergency alert ahead of today’s phone test
  • When the government Emergency Alerts system could actually be used
  • New weight loss pill for people scared of needles could be available in the UK by next year
  • Four people dead after plane 'violently' smashed to the ground and erupted into fireball at UK airport

Choose your content:

an hour ago
3 hours ago
  • CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty ImagesCHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images
    an hour ago

    Donald Trump responds after Russia fired drones into Poland’s airspace in major escalation

    Trump issued a simple statement on Truth Social

    News
  • Arnold Jerocki/Getty ImagesArnold Jerocki/Getty Images
    an hour ago

    Dominique Pelicot's lawyer explains why she agreed to defend him despite the horrific crimes

    She believes she knows the sexual predator better than anyone else

    News
  • (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
    3 hours ago

    Elon Musk is no longer the richest man in the world

    The Tesla owner has been dethroned

    News
  • UGCUGC
    3 hours ago

    Family shares tragic statement as dad collapses and dies at own son’s funeral

    Norman White died of a 'broken heart' during his son, David Beilicki's, funeral service

    News