Cessna Lands on New Jersey Turnpike

[Matt Molnar]

Plane makes emergency landing on NJ Turnpike
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Last Updated: 1:09 PM, February 1, 2010
Posted: 7:08 AM, February 1, 2010

HADDONFIELD, N.J. — A traffic reporter in a small plane put himself in the thick of a rush-hour tie-up when his aircraft had to make an emergency landing Monday on the New Jersey Turnpike.

It was a little before 7 a.m., before the morning rush in the Philadelphia suburbs gets going, when a low oil pressure indicator came on in the Cessna owned by Wilmington, Del.-based Out of the Blue, Inc.

The pilot, flying with a traffic reporter for Metro Networks, which was providing traffic reports for Philadelphia’s KYW-AM and KYW-TV, put the plane down on the northbound lanes of the turnpike in Cherry Hill about two miles south of Exit 4. [Full Article]

[Steven Holzinger]

Technically that area is on or very close to the border of Cherry Hill and Mt. Laurel. Wish I knew about it earlier or I would have gone out and get photos and video.

[USAF Pilot 07]

Nice job! I wonder how bad it tied up traffic? I travel just north of that area everyday up I-295 and one minor accident on either the turnpike or feeder route can jam up traffic real bad.. This morning though I was unluckly (or lucky depending on how you look at it) enough to have to do it at 4AM...