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Cross-country drive on 2 gallons of gas
EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A truck driver says he didn't hear anything when a single-engine plane touched down on his 18-wheeler near El Paso, Texas, during an emergency landing.
The single-engine plane fell off the trailer and landed upside down on Interstate 10 about 19 miles east of El Paso Thursday, the El Paso Times reported.
"Nothing happened to the truck, except for a couple of skid marks up top," said Lucila Torres, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Pilot Mark Taylor Davis and wife, Mercedes, were returning to El Paso from Austin when the 1967 Mooney M20F developed engine trouble, state troopers said.
The engine died before Davis could reach an airstrip in Fabens, east of El Paso.
Truck driver Raymond Bennett White Jr. of Dayton, Texas, told state troopers he didn't hear anything when the plane briefly touched down on top of his trailer, Torres said.
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