{"id":454243,"date":"2021-12-06T09:11:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=454243"},"modified":"2021-12-06T09:32:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T04:02:29","slug":"germany-pilot-performs-emergency-landing-on-autobahn-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/germany-pilot-performs-emergency-landing-on-autobahn-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: Pilot performs emergency landing on autobahn bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pilot crashed his light aircraft into a truck on Saturday after being forced to carry out an emergency landing on an autobahn bridge used by cars, local police confirmed in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The 72-year-old had been flying from France to the Netherlands, over the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, when his single-engine began to fail and he had to quickly decide when to bring the aircraft down.<\/p>\n<p>He landed on the Schwarzbachtalbr\u00fccke \u2014 a 100-meter (328 feet) high bridge close to the city of Pirmasens in western Germany, on the border with France. <\/p>\n<p>On the bridge, his plane crashed into an oncoming truck. The pilot was left with light injuries while the truck driver came away unscathed, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pilot crashed his light aircraft into a truck on Saturday after being forced to carry out an emergency landing on an autobahn bridge used by cars, local police confirmed in a statement. The 72-year-old had been flying from France to the Netherlands, over the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, when his single-engine began to fail and he had to quickly decide when to bring the aircraft down. He landed on the Schwarzbachtalbr\u00fccke \u2014 a 100-meter (328 feet) high bridge close to the city of Pirmasens in western Germany, on the border with France. On the bridge, his plane crashed into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}