Cape Coral pilot makes emergency landing on North Carolina highway

Fraser’s plane moments before landing on a North Carolina Highway. (Credit: Vincent Fraser)

A Cape Coral pilot made an emergency landing on a four-lane highway in North Carolina when he had no other option. Video from a camera placed on the wing captured the landing.

Cape Coral pilot Vincent Fraser was forced to make the landing when his engine began to fail.

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