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I called fond du lac tower. they cleared me to land on any runway if i could get there. >> it soon becomes apparent to bill he's going to need to find a different solution. >> so my choices were parking lots, housing developments and buildings. >> but then bill spots another option. highway 41. >> it was the clearest open piece of pavement that i could get the airplane down on. >> but on the highway, traffic is heavy with people en route to the air show. state trooper scott linak is on the shoulder of the road helping a disabled vehicle. >> i was dispatched for a motor home with a flat tire. w...

Highway they make their way toward the plane. >> because you are always planning for the worst, hoping for the best. are the pilots hurt? how many cars did they strike? >> when they reach the plane, they are relieved to find it's in one piece and did not hit any cars. >> this could have been a major disaster. a lot of vehicles with all that fuel and everything else there could have been horrendous accident. this is probably the best outcome we could have had of any other possibility we could think of. >> bill leff and his son exit the plane feeling lucky to be alive. the trooper greets them at...

A disabled vehicle. >> i was dispatched for a motor home with a flat tire. we were trying to get as many people as we could to move over to give him space to change the tire. >> just behind rookie trooper chris and his supervisor luke newman assist linak. >> when you turn your lights on, your camera goes on. we were providing lights for trooper linak and normally you'd turn your camera off. but being that i was new to the job, i forgot to turn the camera off. >> up above, bill leff frantically scopes out the highway and formulates a plan for his emergency landing. >> there was a space of 8 to ...

>> i was dispatched for a motor home with a flat tire. we were trying to get as many people as we could to move over to give him space to change the tire. >> just behind rookie trooper chris and his supervisor luke newman assist linak. >> when you turn your lights on, your camera goes on. we were providing lights for trooper linak and normally you'd turn your camera off. but being that i was new to the job, i forgot to turn the camera off. >> up above, bill leff frantically scopes out the highway and formulates a plan for his emergency landing. >> there was a space of 8 to 10 car lengths that ...

>> when they reach the plane, they are relieved to find it's in one piece and did not hit any cars. >> this could have been a major disaster. a lot of vehicles with all that fuel and everything else there could have been horrendous accident. >> this is probably the best outcome we could have had of any other possibility we could think of. >> bill leff and his son exit the plane feeling lucky to be alive. the trooper greets them at the wing. >> he just stopped and said you really scared me. >> i said, well, yeah, kind of scared me, too. >> he didn't seem excited about the situation at all like ...