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Pilot lands 1940 biplane on busy highway

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LEBANON, N.H., June 16 (UPI) -- The pilot of a 1940 biplane with engine failure made an emergency landing on busy Interstate 89 in New Hampshire without disrupting traffic.

Bud Bushway was headed from Rutland, Vt., to the airport in Lebanon when the plane's engine suddenly quit working, WMUR-TV, Manchester, reported Monday.

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Bushway said he was about five feet too low to make it to the airport when the engine gave out.

His next best option, he told WMUR, was to land on the nearby interstate.

"It happened so fast you don't think, you just go on instinct at that point," Bushway said. "I didn't see much of anything. I was trying to fly that airplane."

Sgt. Dave McCormack of the state police said Bushway picked a break in the traffic to set the plane down Saturday.

He turned the plane in the same direction as the cars and landed it in the southbound lanes before moving to the side of the road.

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