Plane lands on I-95 in Florida (N95KC)

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FHP: Plane Forced to Land on I-95 in Cocoa During Evening Rush Hour, One Injured - Space Coast Daily

A small airplane carrying two people was forced to make an emergency landing Monday evening along Interstate 95 in Cocoa.
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Accident Beechcraft 95-C55 Baron N95KC, Monday 8 December 2025

A Beechcraft 95-C55 Baron, N95KC, sustained substantial damage when it collided with a car during a forced landing on the I-95 near Cocoa, Florida. The pilot and passenger were not injure...
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So many things happening in that video. Plonk that car in particular (can you imagine driving along and suddenly becoming the left main?). Props windmilling, at minimum. No fire. State patrol happened to be just down the road. Very glad injuries were minor/none.
 
I have enough to do watching the other drivers around me trying to merge without also scanning the sky for aircraft trying to do it. I hope the guy is ok.
 
Totally inept piloting. Pilot had the whole wide shoulder to land on.
Was it fuel exhaustion? I know that road pilot had better choices.
Pilots have to give up the notion of landing on Highways in S Fla full of cars
and endangering people.
 
That green traffic sign along the shoulder looks close enough to snag a wing and spin the plane, and then who knows where it's going. Minor injuries, everyone walks away, and hopefully the aircraft insurance makes the auto driver whole. Seems like a good outcome to me *shrug*.
 
Bill said:
That green traffic sign along the shoulder looks close enough to snag a wing and spin the plane, and then who knows where it's going. Minor injuries, everyone walks away, and hopefully the aircraft insurance makes the auto driver whole. Seems like a good outcome to me *shrug*.
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Also had the likely possibility of killing numerous drivers too. They got lucky.
 
bonefishpete said:
Totally inept piloting. Pilot had the whole wide shoulder to land on.
Was it fuel exhaustion? I know that road pilot had better choices.
Pilots have to give up the notion of landing on Highways in S Fla full of cars
and endangering people.
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I agree about not selecting a busy interstate. Regarding landing on the shoulder, the lens used on a lot of these cameras makes everything appear to have more distance than what is actually available. An outer wing section or wingtip slicing through a car at cabin height could / would be more deadly to the vehicle's occupant(s) than plopping down on the roof.
 
Let's play "spot the landing flare"! Carrier landing anyone?

The impacted car -- was is mebee below the pilots line of sight.

P.S. Have a look at the flight track linked in the aviation-safety.net report.
 
Turbo-Arrow-Driver said:
P.S. Have a look at the flight track linked in the aviation-safety.net report.
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Looks like a standard training flight. (The flight track history shows lots of those -- often multiple per day.) Those resemble IFR attitude flying patterns; I don't know if they do those in twin training -- OEI maneuvering gone bad?
 
Turbo-Arrow-Driver said:
Let's play "spot the landing flare"! Carrier landing anyone?

The impacted car -- was is mebee below the pilots line of sight.

P.S. Have a look at the flight track linked in the aviation-safety.net report.
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I don’t think he saw the car. I expect he was focusing down the road.
 
Bill said:
That green traffic sign along the shoulder looks close enough to snag a wing and spin the plane, and then who knows where it's going. Minor injuries, everyone walks away, and hopefully the aircraft insurance makes the auto driver whole. Seems like a good outcome to me *shrug*.
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Looked to me like he had plenty of room to NOT hit the car with the nosegear. How 'bout offsetting enough where you hit it with just the tip?
 
This was in Florida? Plane should have had its turn signal flashing for last 10 miles to make it fit in better.

But seriously...... how do you loose both engines except for fuel starvation. Assume the second engine didn't starve out at same time as first one did. So pilot couldn't find a place to land after the first engine quit? Continued to fly on one remaining engine until it starved and shut down? Will be curious to see what the story was.
 
The internet buzzards circle hoping to be first with a video. Accuracy? Who knows. Gotta be first.
 
3393RP said:
My observation above plays out as expected.

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I don't get the appeal. The videos put out by AOPA/Air Safety Institute, especially before McSpadden was killed, are very insightful and add more context and detail.

These others? Meh. I can read to myself, thanks.
 
There's a You Tube aviation guy I see who presents himself in his captains shirt with epaulettes, has an ID tag on a lanyard around his neck. I'm much more of a "give me the facts", and suspicious of someone who has so much window dressing.
 
If the pilot couldn't see the car below him, it is possible that he thought he picked a wide open spot, a safe distance from any cars.
I doubt he saw it and said "Hondas are soft I will plunk it on that one". And yeah, no fire but the car didn't catch fire either and I suspect it had fuel in it.
Fuel would be my first guess though.
 
WDD said:
There's a You Tube aviation guy I see who presents himself in his captains shirt with epaulettes, has an ID tag on a lanyard around his neck. I'm much more of a "give me the facts", and suspicious of someone who has so much window dressing.
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It's like Whack-a-mole trying to block that guy. People share his stuff incessantly.
 
Ok class lets say this is simple fuel exhaustion. Lets say both pilots in plane.
lets say this is ME time building for both pilots that is common here. One under the hood flying and one monitoring.
Both logging time.

Who is responsible for this incident?
 
Good question. Worth expanding the thought process a bit.
In order for both of them to log time, the safety pilot has to agree to be acting PIC, either for the entire flight or (more likely) for the duration of the simulated instrument portion of the flight. That way he logs the time while the flying pilot logs at the controls PIC time for the duration of the simulated IMC portion of the flight.

But... one has to hope that when this turned into an emergency, pilot flying removed his foggles and reverted to being the only PIC of the flight, unless they agreed that the safety pilot would be acting PIC for the entire flight.

Either way, safety pilot is the most likely to be found at fault if this was a fuel exhaustion situation, or something else caused by mismanagement of aircraft systems.
The actual landing and its consequences, it will depend on who agreed to be acting PIC when a safety pilot was not required. Most likely that will be on the guy who was pilot flying.
 
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3393RP said:
Only after he reads the ASN report to the audience, replays the landing video repeatedly, and rapidly moves the mouse cursor in circles around the ADS-B plot on his screen display.
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Well, it's better than Dan Gryder making some outlandish conspiracy theory about why the crash happened...
bonefishpete said:
Ok class lets say this is simple fuel exhaustion. Lets say both pilots in plane.
lets say this is ME time building for both pilots that is common here. One under the hood flying and one monitoring.
Both logging time.

Who is responsible for this incident?
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What if both pilots say, "the other guy was PIC!"
mark.staggs said:
I don't get the appeal. The videos put out by AOPA/Air Safety Institute, especially before McSpadden was killed, are very insightful and add more context and detail.

These others? Meh. I can read to myself, thanks.
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I prefer the videos showing pretty girls flying interesting planes and not crashing.
 
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