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LAKE HAVASU, AZ (AZFamily) — Another plane made an emergency landing on an Arizona road, this time near Lake Havasu City.
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The emergency landing happened around 3 p.m. Thursday on Highway 95 after the plane experienced engine failure after taking off from a nearby airport, according to officials with the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
No one was injured, but the two occupants of the plane were taken to a nearby hospital for further evaluation, officials said.
This comes after several planes have made emergency landings on Arizona roads in the past month. Thankfully, no one has been seriously hurt, but aviation experts are wondering what’s to blame for the trend.
One theory is that the public may just be seeing and hearing about incidents involving aircraft more often.
“Because everybody has a camera and because everybody’s on social media, a lot of these events are being brought to the public in real time,” Tim Kiefer, assistant professor of air traffic management at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, previously told Arizona’s Family.
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Another possibility is that Arizona skies are filled with pilots in training.
“Arizona is the flight training capital of quite literally the world. People from everywhere come here to learn. So when you have new pilots in aircraft learning to fly, they’re going to have incidents and accidents,” said Steven Devine, owner of Fly Aero Angel Flight Training.
Aging aircraft could also be a factor.
“The aviation fleet is getting older. They’re not producing airplanes anymore like they used to,” Devine said. “As these planes get older, they’re going to have problems.”
The experts agreed that full investigations into each of the landings will reveal whether this is a concerning trend or a series of unfortunate coincidences.
The FAA and NTSB will investigate the landings.
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