Not just helo guys:
U.S. pilots make safe landing on Yukon highway
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 | 6:54 PM CT Comments4Recommend16
CBC News
Two American pilots safely made an emergency landing on the Alaska Highway near Watson Lake, Yukon, on Monday.
The pilots were both in single-engine airplanes and were en route to Alaska when snow and freezing rain forced them to land 12 kilometres south of Watson Lake, where the highway crosses the Yukon-British Columbia border, shortly before 4 p.m. PT Monday.
"The pilots did the correct thing, you know: they got down as soon as they could and in the safest manner as possible," Watson Lake RCMP Cpl. Tom Howell told CBC News Tuesday.
Howell added that the pilots had "no time to get permission to land if the weather was quite intense; the aircrafts were icing up."
The pilots manoeuvred their planes off the highway into a rest stop, where they waited for police to arrive. The pair then camped in the area overnight and took off Tuesday morning for the Watson Lake airport.
Howell said he and another RCMP officer blocked off a one-kilometre stretch of the Alaska Highway for Tuesday morning's takeoff.
The pilots even gave Howell a wag of their wings as they departed to continue their adventure, he added.