Remarkably, there were no injuries from a dramatic small plane crash in the suburbs of Seattle on Tuesday afternoon. The silent footage comes from Guanting Li, a witness who happened to have dash camera that captured the plane clipping power lines and hitting five cars.
The single-engine Piper PA3 had just taken off from the nearby Paine Field, around 30 miles north of downtown Seattle. According to the FAA's description to local news, the plane started losing power just after takeoff and the pilot couldn't restart the engine.
Faced with a no-win scenario, the pilot saw a clear and open emergency runway in the form of Harbour Pointe Boulevard and took the plane down. While around 9,000 people lost power in the area, that there were no injuries speaks to the fact that the pilot made the right call.
