Plane ties up traffic by landing on I-295 in Florida

By By msnbc.com staff and news service reports

Update at 3:20 a.m. EST: Troopers are looking for the driver of a pickup truck that clipped the side of the plane while it was on the side of the road and then left the scene, according to First Coast News.

Updated at 1 a.m. EST: A plane?landed on Interstate 295 in Jacksonville, Fla.,?but nobody aboard was injured, NBC station WJXT reported late Saturday.

Florida Highway Patrol said the plane came down just before 10 p.m.?in the northbound lanes of I-295, causing a traffic backup. One lane was blocked because of the airplane. An image on the station's website, news4jax.com, showed the Cirrus single-engine plane on its landing gear on the shoulder of the interstate.

It was not clear what caused the pilot to land on the roadway.

Source: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/03/9196568-plane-causes-a-traffic-tie-up-by-landing-on-i-295-in-jacksonville-fla

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