Germany: Pilot performs emergency touchdown on autobahn bridge

A pilot crashed his gentle plane right into a truck on Saturday after being pressured to hold out an emergency touchdown on an autobahn bridge utilized by vehicles, native police confirmed in an announcement.
The 72-year-old had been flying from France to the Netherlands, over the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, when his single-engine started to fail and he needed to shortly resolve when to deliver the plane down.
He landed on the Schwarzbachtalbrücke — a 100-meter (328 toes) excessive bridge near the town of Pirmasens in western Germany, on the border with France.
On the bridge, his airplane crashed into an oncoming truck. The pilot was left with gentle accidents whereas the truck driver got here away unscathed, police stated.
Numerous emergency service personnel have been fast to reach on the scene.
The entire highway needed to be utterly closed off whereas police cleared the gas and took the airplane aside. The lanes had been cleared by night, native newspaper Die Rheinpfalz reported.
Authorities estimated the price of the incident to quantity to round €60,000 ($68,000).