Small Plane Crashes After Landing On a 18-wheeler

A small plane crashed on Interstate 10 in far West Texas after briefly landing atop an 18-wheeler Thursday afternoon, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. No one was injured.

"Nothing happened to the truck, except for a couple of skid marks up top," Trooper Lucila Torres, a DPS spokeswoman, told the El Paso Times for its Friday editions.

The single-engine plane carrying an El Paso couple fell off the trailer and landed upside down during the emergency landing about 19 miles east of El Paso, Torres said.

Pilot Mark Taylor Davis, 45, and wife Mercedes Davis, 42, were returning home from Austin when the 1967 Mooney M20F developed engine trouble, state troopers said.

The engine died before the plane could reach an airstrip in Fabens, Torres said.

Truck driver Raymond Bennett White Jr., 44, of Dayton, Texas, told state troopers he didn't hear anything when the plane landed atop his trailer, Torres said.

FAA investigators were sent from Albuquerque, N.M., to review the incident

LOL, that's pretty good flying right there. :D
Did the pilots and passengers get out okay?

yes, the article says no one was injured....

My bad, I missed it.

I thought carrier landings were supposed to be on an aircraft carrier :o But I like the new concept!