Originally Posted by Hydro Junkie

In this case, the pilot tried to do the right thing by trying to land at the local airfield. A safety chute wasn't really an option or needed since the pilot had actually set the plane into a landing configuration AND the plane was already too low for the chute to function properly. What must be remembered is a safety chute is designed to drop a plane STRAIGHT DOWN at a survivable speed in the event of a catastrophic failure. In this case, the plane's engine lost power, the pilot tried to land at a field and, discovering it was unusable, went for the only available option left, the freeway. This is a case of wrong place at the wrong time for the car. What must also be remembered is that the car's driver was on the freeway, sitting still by choice. Had he not stopped to play with something he shouldn't have been, in this case Bluetooth, he wouldn't have been sitting in that location or been hit. For that matter, the car could have been hit just as easily by another car being driven by someone texting or not paying attention to what was going on around them instead of the aircraft.