HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — A new video shows the moment a plane fell from the sky and crashed on a Harris County toll road last weekend.
Spring Area Radio Kontrol Society captured the video. It shows the Bonanza 35 aircraft coming in for a crash landing on the Grand Parkway near Cypress Rosehill Road around 11:15 a.m. Sunday.
The pilot reported a loss of power and told radio control that he was going to try to land on the toll road.
"I'm just passing the Tomball stadium now. I'm going to try to bring it in over the road and land with traffic," the pilot said in the recorded Live ATC communication.
As the pilot attempted the emergency landing, the plane hit the top of an 18-wheeler. It hit the top of the big rig and fell to the road. Once the plane got to the ground, it caught fire, with a large plume of smoke seen in the video.
"Not good. They're on big fire. Big time. Emergency services now as fast as you can," a dispatcher can be heard saying on the air traffic control communication.
Neither the driver of the big rig nor the pilot of the plane was injured, officials said.
DPS public information officer Richard Standifer said the pilot was flying a survey assignment and was coming from West Houston Airport. The plane is registered in Michigan.
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The pilots who captured the video actually fly different kinds of planes -- the ones controlled by remotes.
SARKS President Jim Sneed frequents a runway at Dyess Park, right by where the single-engine plane went down on 99. He said it's common to see planes flying around due to the proximity to Hooks Airport.
“We get small planes over here all the time," he said. “People that are doing practice and training and stuff. They fly over us and around us all the time.”
The RC plane runway got a front-row seat to the miraculous crash landing.
“He was aiming to land it in the concrete out there on the 99. And it just didn't time out right. There was an 18-wheeler -- it was a big trailer there. And that's where it touched down,” Sneed said.
The remote control club's camera caught it all.
“I started reaching for my phone to dial 911 ‘cause I knew it wasn’t good," SARKS instructor Dustin Hiett said. "Surreal --you're not believing what you're seeing.”
When the plane came down, Hiett was teaching a group of cub scouts how to fly RC planes.
“Most of what I felt, or thought, at the time was -- this couldn't have been a worse time for something like this," he said.
Thankfully, no one was injured in the incident.
“I talked to the pilot, and he said he's fine," Hiett said. “Someone was watching out for him.”
Hiett said that teaching new generations about flight and remote control planes is something the club aims to do.
"It involves physics. It involves engineering. It involves hand-eye coordination -- maybe not necessarily be like a sport, if you will, like soccer or baseball or football might be for kids, which are all good things. They should totally do those things. But this may be something where they can learn to build learn to glue," Hiett said.
Hiett said it was tough to watch everything unfold.
"It was happening in front of us and we did our best to deal with it," he said.
Here's the Live ATC communication during the crash landing:
Here's the update DPS provided at the scene of the crash: