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Trouble puts plane on same road again

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ATLANTA, April 22 (UPI) -- A Georgia pilot made an emergency landing on the same highway he and his father crash landed on 12 years ago.

Police said neither Elgin Wells, a local jazz musician and aerobatic pilot, nor his passenger, Lora Darrisaw, was injured in Thursday night's incident, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported Friday.

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Wells, 55, of Duluth, was flying the single-engine Super Decathlon toward the Gwinnett County Airport when the plane experienced engine trouble, Gwinnett police spokesman Darren Moloney said.

Wells was able to land the plane in the median of the highway west of Harbins Road without causing damage to the aircraft or to any vehicles.

In November 1993, Wells and his 76-year-old father, Elgin Wells Sr., who was at the controls,landed on the same highway during rush hour after the engine went dead. No one was hurt in that incident either.

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