---
title: "Watch This Small Plane Strike Two Cars While Landing on a Road in Florida"
description: "Somehow, no one was seriously injured."
date: "2017-10-20"
modified: "2017-10-20"
authors:
  - name: "Kyle Cheromcha"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kyle-cheromcha"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/15317/watch-this-small-plane-strike-two-cars-while-landing-on-a-road-in-florida"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "Aviation"
  - "Cessna"
  - "emergency landing"
  - "Florida"
  - "Plane Crash"
  - "road"
---

# Watch This Small Plane Strike Two Cars While Landing on a Road in Florida

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In a general sense, accidents are unavoidable. You can be the safest, most cautious driver in the world, but a public road is not a controlled environment, and literally anything can happen—like a small plane [falling out of the sky](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/9918/dash-cam-captures-airplane-crash-in-front-of-traffic-in-washington-state>) and landing on your SUV right in the middle of St. Petersburg, Florida.

[According to the *Tampa Bay Times,*](<https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/small-plane-crashes-on-st-petersburg-street/2341541>) the twin-engine [Cessna](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/14266/watch-this-airplane-crash-into-a-tree-and-flop-into-a-parking-lot>) 402B was flying a short route from Tallahassee, Florida to nearby Albert Whitted Airport. The pilot reportedly experienced some kind of mechanical failure and opted to set the plane down in the street. As the *Times* points out, the spot where the Cessna ended up is almost directly in line with Runway 7 at the airport—only about 1.5 miles short. Miraculously, no one on the plane or on the ground was seriously injured.

The video of the crash landing, captured by a convenience store security camera, shows the plane descend out of nowhere at high speed and hit several power poles and two SUVs before skidding to stop in the middle of 18th Avenue South in St. Petersburg. Since the vehicles were struck from behind, the drivers had no warning that they were about to star in a real-life Farmer's Insurance commercial.

Well, almost no warning. The husband of one of the women driving [told *Fox 13*](<https://www.fox13news.com/news/local-news/plane-crash-lands-on-st-pete-street>) her toddler grandson may have tried to alert her from the backseat.

"He kept on saying grandma airplane, grandma airplane and by the time she realized the plane was coming down it was too late," he said.

## Author
Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019. On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive's editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness. He is also the executive producer of The Drive's YouTube channel, which was relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year back on the scene. He hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world.

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