What's the most unexpected thing you've ever seen on the street you live on? For me, it would have to be the time that a guy dressed as Robert the Bruce rode a horse outside my house while he was swinging an axe around. He was part of a gala day procession, but it was still pretty surreal for me to suddenly see a dude who looked like an extra from Monty Python and the Holy Grail suddenly appear outside my driveway.
It's an image I don't think I'll ever forget; but it seems completely tame when compared to what the residents of a street in Huntington Beach, California went through this week, after a plane sudden landed right in the middle of the road out of nowhere.
The pilot of the small Cessna 172 plane landed was forced to make an emergency landing on a street near Hamilton Avenue and Magnolia Street, after the plane lost power at around 5 pm on Friday, ending up around 5 miles southwest of John Wayne Airport. The female pilot had just taken off from there before realising that the plane was experiencing a catastrophic power failure.
Witnesses took photos of the plane after it settled in the middle of the road. Tory Johnson, who saw the plane land, stated: "This could have been really, really bad," Flew underneath all those wires, which is a pretty big deal. Those wires hang down pretty low and could have killed the power throughout this entire block. It was pretty gnarly." I guess it just goes to show that you never know what to expect when you walk out your front door, although we can be grateful that nobody was injured.
