{"id":157311,"date":"2026-04-04T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157311\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:06:09","slug":"small-plane-makes-emergency-landing-on-i-78-in-lehigh-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157311\/","title":{"rendered":"Small plane makes emergency landing on I-78 in Lehigh Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKS CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A small aircraft was forced to land on a busy stretch of highway in Berks County Saturday morning, causing significant traffic delays.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the single-engine plane touched down on the eastbound lanes of Interstate 78 near Exit 45, in the area of New Smithville, about 15 miles from Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were on board at the time of the incident, but neither was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews temporarily shut down the eastbound lanes while they responded and investigated, leading to backups in the area. Authorities later removed the plane, allowing traffic to resume.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Open the video in full-screen mode to see the full video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A small aircraft was forced to land on a busy stretch of highway in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-157311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}