Shocking video shows a Tesla driver narrowly colliding with a massive military aircraft as it made a crash landing on an Oklahoma highway.
The Oklahoma National Guard’s OA-1K Skyraider II turboprop plane was on a training mission out of Will Rogers Air National Guard Base on Thursday when the crew experienced engine failure and was forced to make an emergency landing just before 2 p.m., KOCO News 5 reported.
As the plane came gliding down towards Southeast 119th Street and Sooner Road in Oklahoma City, Tesla driver Matthew Topchian caught the frightening moment the aircraft almost hit his and other motorists’ vehicles.
“I was just driving down the road, and then out of nowhere, right above a tree I was looking and saw the plane, and I was like, ‘That plane looks low. Like really, really low,’” Topchian told the outlet.
Topchian was driving when the turboprop came out of nowhere — skimming over a hill, nearly slamming into a white van, and nearly hitting his Tesla with its wing before darting out of view.
“As it kept coming coming coming, I was like that plane is about to hit me,” Topchian said.
“It was only a couple seconds I saw it, so it wasn’t much time to sit there and think like that’s a, you know it was just a bam, bam, bam, bam, get out of there.”
Stunned by narrowly being taken out by the plane, Topchian took a moment to gain his bearings, then looked around to observe the destruction it caused.
“They, like, took down, like, I think it was power lines or something, so, there was a lot of fire everywhere,” Topchian recalled.
“I thought the plane had blown up, and I called my mom, like, ‘Hey, I don’t know what’s going on.’”
The Oklahoma City Fire Department responded to the crash site, and when they arrived, they were amazed to find that the two military pilots onboard were already out of the plane and uninjured.
“As soon as we arrived on scene, it was refreshing to see the two pilots on board tell us that everybody was OK,” Oklahoma City Fire Department spokesman Scott Douglas told the outlet.
One of the crew members told first responders that the plane’s engine failed midair, sending it into a descent that ripped through nearby power lines, knocking out power in the area and sparking a grass fire.
Traffic signs were also lodged in the military aircraft’s wing during the crash landing.
The Air Force Special Operations Command said the cause of the crash remains under investigation.
For Topchian, he said that when he shared the video of him nearly being hit by a plane, people thought it was “AI” given how close it came to striking his car.
“Every single person was like that’s AI, that Sora, that’s AI that’s not real, like, dude, that is my dashcam, that just happened, if it wasn’t any dashcam, people wouldn’t believe that something like that would happen because it’s just so out there. It’s like something out of a movie,” he said.
However, Topchian said he’s just grateful he and no one else involved in the near-fatal incident were hurt.
“Tomorrow’s not promised, live for today,” he told the outlet.
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