{"id":157984,"date":"2026-04-05T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157984\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:00:08","slug":"dramatic-moment-plane-makes-emergency-landing-on-pennsylvania-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157984\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic Moment Plane Makes Emergency Landing on Pennsylvania Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A plane made an emergency landing on a highway in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, April 4, after the pilot ran into engine trouble, local news <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyvoice.com\/pa\/kutztown\/small-plane-lands-on-i-78\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;reported&quot;}\" class=\"link \">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage here from Emily Rivera shows the moment the small plane landed alongside vehicles on Interstate 78 shortly after 9 am on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Local Kutztown paper <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyvoice.com\/pa\/kutztown\/small-plane-lands-on-i-78\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Daily Voice;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Daily Voice&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Daily Voice<\/a> said the plane was travelling from Solberg Airport in New Jersey to Indiana when the pilot, a 65-year-old man from Michigan, encountered engine problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident prompted closures of all eastbound traffic on I-78 for several hours on Saturday while the plane was towed to a nearby airport. Credit: Emily Rivera via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plane made an emergency landing on a highway in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, April 4, after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71313,71506,6652,28,30,29,71285,71507],"class_list":{"0":"post-157984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-emily-rivera","9":"tag-engine-trouble","10":"tag-kutztown","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","13":"tag-pennsylvania-news","14":"tag-plane-landed","15":"tag-solberg-airport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157984","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=157984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}