A teenage pilot who made an emergency airplane landing on a busy Florida road while averting disaster entirely says “you just execute” when thrust into such life-or-death situations.
“It can happen … so fast,” 19-year-old Niko Bray said in an interview with the Florida news outlet WSVN, nearly a week after authorities say he landed the small airplane he was flying on a six-lane thoroughfare in the community of Jupiter because of an emergency in the skies.
Bray obtained his pilot’s license in January 2025, works as a flight instructor and was flying a Cessna 150G above Jupiter on the afternoon of 6 March when he detected that his plane had an engine problem, the Palm Beach Post reported…