MCKINNEY, Texas — A small plane overshot the runway while landing at a Texas airport over the weekend and struck a car on a nearby road, injuring one person, authorities said.
The propeller plane crashed through a fence during an emergency landing Saturday in the Dallas suburb of McKinney. It then bounced and skidded onto the road, losing a wheel and colliding with a silver sedan that was traveling perpendicular to the single-engine plane’s path.
“I saw the plane coming down the runway fast, I knew it wasn’t going to have time to stop,” Jack Schneider, a bystander who recorded footage of the crash on his phone, told WFAA-TV. “It was clearly going too fast, the tires were smoking.”
After the afternoon crash, paramedics evaluated both people on the plane and took the driver of the car to the hospital with minor injuries, according to a statement from the McKinney Fire Department.
The flight originated in Midland, a Texas oil patch city 330 miles (531 kilometers) west of Dallas, and had been attempting an emergency landing at Aero Country Airport, the fire department said.
