Flagler County, FL - The occupants of a small single-engined plane that ended up upside down on I-95 suffered only minor injuries during their crash landing.
Not many details are available about the crash, other than the investigation is being handled by Florida Highway Patrol. It's also clear that the plane was attempting to land on the northbound lanes of the highway when a wing clipped a semi-truck trailer, causing it to end up in the treeline.
The emergency occurred after the plane began to lose power. Investigators are still unsure as to how that happened.
The plane ended up coming to a rest upside down just a mile north of Exit 278 for Old Dixie Highway near the Volusia/Flagler line. Traffic was diverted off of the highway for some time as crews tended to the scene while the northbound side of I-95 was closed.
As of 2:40 Monday afternoon (Jan. 31) the roadway was reopened, but motorists were encountering heavy congestion delays into the Flagler area.
According to data from FlightAware—obtained by searching the plane's tail number—the plane is a 1949 Cessna 195 registered to a Daniel Kriedeman of Port Orange. The plane's airworthiness certificate was last updated in September 2020 and is set to expire in 2023.
Furthermore, a flight path from FlightAware shows the plane took off from Spruce Creek Airport around 12:38 p.m. and was airborne for almost 20 minutes before it made its crash landing just a few miles from the Flagler Executive Airport. The flight data says the plane only made it as high as 800 feet.
That data has yet to be confirmed by investigators.
