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Originally Posted by Cowperson
Sooner or later, someone is going to get over the admitted awesomeness of the video and ask him why he didn't take the ample opportunities he seemed to have for a water landing instead of choosing the chance of killing other people on an occupied freeway.
Cowperson
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I'd be taking a field or a road long before deciding to go in the water (fixed gear = flipped upside down on impact). Besides an ultralight (or any light single engine plane) isn't going to do any damage against the average car, if anything the pilot and passenger would be on the receiving end of the worst of it!
The question is what were they doing at that low altitude before the engine failed? Had they just taken off? Or were they flying around low for the fun of it?
The pilot handled the situation extremely well in the circumstances that he had to deal with.