‘Remember your training’: teen pilot makes emergency landing on Route 66

Brock Peters, 18, lands plane on California road carrying cousins and weeping grandmother four months after getting pilot license

It was supposed to be a holiday treat: a teenage pilot taking his grandmother and two cousins on a short Monday morning flight across southern California.

Then, with the family cruising 5,500ft in the air, the plane’s engine suddenly failed. Brock Peters, 18, who had received his pilot’s license just four months earlier, said he heard a “boom” from the engine and “immediately after that” he lost all his engine power.