A pilot out of Jacksonville, Florida, is lucky to be alive after surviving two unusual inflight accidents in one year. According to First Coast News, Graham Hill and his passenger walked away from a plane crash after the Cessna 172 from which Hill was towing a banner over a Florida Gators football game reportedly lost power.
Without much choice for an emergency landing site, Hill put the airplane down at the edge of a field where cars were parked and people were tailgating before the game. The field is within walking distance of the 90,000-seat Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville. The airplane crashed into a pickup truck. Nobody on the ground was hurt. Hill and his passenger were transported to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to FCN.
