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The single-engine
Lancair IV came down on I-15 near Highway 76, in the area of
Fallbrook, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian
Gregor in an email.
The propeller plane made an emergency landing on its belly and
skidded along a lane for more than 100 feet (30 meters),
crashing into the back of a Nissan Sentra parked at the side of
the highway, said North County Fire Protection District
spokesman John Buchanan.
Before the plane came down, the four people in the Nissan had
stopped to sync the sedan's Bluetooth wireless system, Buchanan
said.
The crash killed a woman in the car's back seat, Buchanan said.
The plane's pilot, a man in his 60s, was transported to a
hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to Buchanan,
while his passenger and three occupants of the car were all
hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
"It was pretty nerve-wracking seeing the plane coming right over
top of me and then hit the road and then slide up here and then
hit that car," truck driver Bill Senclare told San Diego
television station KGTV.
A spokesman for the California Highway Patrol, which responded
to the crash less than 40 miles (64 km) north of San Diego,
could not immediately be reached for comment.
It was not clear what caused the plane to come down on the
highway.
Gregor said the National Transportation Safety Bureau and the
Federal Aviation Administration will investigate the crash.
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by James Dalgleish and
Alistair Bell)
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