IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 6101V Make/Model: BE33 Description: 33 Debonair, Bonanza (E-24)
Date: 11/04/2012 Time: 1854
Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: None Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Unknown
LOCATION
City: KENNESAW State: GA Country: US
DESCRIPTION
AIRCRAFT FORCE LANDED ON A ROAD, NEAR KENNESAW, GA
INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 1 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 2 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
OTHER DATA
Activity: Unknown Phase: Landing Operation: OTHER
FAA FSDO: COLLEGE PARK, GA (SO11) Entry date: 11/05/2012
http://registry.faa.gov/N6101V
Bags are removed from a single-engine plane after the pilot made an emergency landing on Interstate 575 South.
No one was hurt when a small plane made an emergency landing on Interstate 575 at Barrett Parkway on Sunday afternoon. 
A Georgia Navigator traffic camera captured this image.
KENNESAW – Drivers on Interstate 575 South near Barrett Parkway were down to just one lane of traffic for more than three hours Sunday after a single-engine plane made an emergency landing on the roadway.
Officer Michael Bowman with Cobb Police said the pilot and his two adult passengers, all whose names are not being released, were flying back to Georgia from Nashville, Tenn., when the plane began experiencing engine problems.
“He was unable to make it to McCollum Air Field so he took the path with the least congested area,” Bowman said. “The pilot did awesome by putting it down on the interstate as opposed in the congested areas of Barrett Parkway or Chastain Road.”
He said no one was injured on the ground or in the aircraft.
Part of the plane stretched into the right-hand lane, causing traffic to slow in the area between 1 and 4 p.m..
Officers on the scene were trying to figure out how to get the plane back to McCollum, which is about five miles away.
“We had a big tow truck put it on a flatbed trailer and take it to the airport,” Bowman said.
Karl Von Hagel, McCollum Airport’s manager, said it seems the pilot was familiar with the area because he figured out the best location to land.
“Pilots are always observant of their surroundings and looking for potential emergency sites,” he said. “Your possibilities become less as your altitude decreases. I don’t know details of the altitude, but his options were probably limited and he found the best and safest landing possibility he could apply and it sounds like he executed it successfully.”
Neither Von Hagel, nor Bowman, could recall a plane ever landing on the interstate safely before, but the airport manager remembered a single-engine plane landing on Cobb Parkway a few years ago.
According to Journal archives, a Canton pilot was on a training flight with a student practicing takeoffs and landings with emergency maneuvers when the cockpit began to fill with smoke in June 2009.
Traveling south, the pilot landed the plane in the southbound lane of Cobb Parkway south of Nance Road and north of the Wal-Mart Shopping Center between a gap in cars.
This landing, like the one around 1 p.m. on Sunday, happened just shy of five miles from the airport.
Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal - Plane makes emergency landing on I 575
A light plane landed on I-575 southbound south of Barrett Parkway on Sunday afternoon, according to authorities.Cobb County police told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the plane was on a final approach to McCollum Field around 1:15 p.m. when it lost power.
Three men were on board on a return trip to McCollum from Nashville, Tenn., said Cobb police spokesman Michael Bowman. The plane was cleared for final approach and landing when the pilot said he lost power. The pilot switched fuel tanks, but that didn’t help. The pilot saw a break in the traffic and landed the plane on the interstate. There were no injuries, according to Bowman.
The pilot and his passengers declined to comment on the incident.
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