A stricken plane was forced to make an emergency landing on a dual carriageway just yards from moving cars.
An engine failure reportedly forced the pilot to take action.
Footage filmed through a car windscreen shows how the plane risked crashing into an overpass had the pilot landed any further down the road.
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Luckily, no vehicles were in the immediate vicinity of the light aircraft when it hit the tarmac with a heavy jolt.
It only clipped a road sign during the landing.
The drama happened on the SP-340 motorway in São João da Boa Vista, north of São Paulo, Brazil, around 1pm yesterday (21 Apr).
The Brazilian Air Force said the incident involved an “experimental aircraft, with no markings or registration,” as reported on Need To Know.
The Highway Police said in a statement: “During the landing, the plane collided with a road sign and came to a stop on the highway shoulder.”
The pilot was uninjured in the landing and no one on the ground was hurt.
The incident caused the closure of the hard shoulder for an hour and 27 minutes, according to the road network maintenance company Renovias.
All lanes remained open to traffic as normal.
Police were dispatched to the scene and the aircraft was eventually towed to the São João da Boa Vista Aeroclub.
One local resident reportedly wrote on social media: “I saw it all, it was experiencing engine failure in Águas da Prata.
“I called my wife to witness it losing power and making a strange engine failure noise.”
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