Looks like a Bo just made an emergency landing on the 55 Fwy (Costa Mesa, CA)

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Looks like a great landing - all gear intact and pilot and pax walked away. Engine out over ocean was the cause per the news.

NBC Los Angeles

Edit: Looks like it was N9337Q. To the pilot: Well done!
 
That's a rare model, G33. Only 50 were built, 1971-73, had the 260 hp IO-470-N (same as the N35 and P35 V-tails, ten years earlier). It was the last Bo to have anything smaller than an IO-520.
 
Good job!

Hopefully they get the bo out of there before the hoodlums and socialists get to it :biggrin:
 
Fortunately, that stretch of the 55 can move pretty well, even on weeknights at that time...the real slowing happens when you approach the 55/405 junction. I drove past there on my commute for 25 years. The shoulders are pretty generous there, IIRC...not enough space for a full plane, but enough for a fuselage with the wings ripped off. :eek:

Yes, lots of skill and a good bit of luck involved too. Let's hope this wasn't a "fuel out" causing an "engine out"!
 
guess he landed with the traffic ...ha.
great job!
 
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