A Piper aircraft sat on the shoulder of the Southbound lanes of Interstate 5 for hours Monday afternoon following an unplanned emergency landing....

The pilot said his engine quite while he was at about 2,500 feet above sea level, and obviously felt the freeway was the safest place for him to land. 

He dipped the plan low to warn drivers that he was coming in for a landing.

Surprisingly, no one was injured on or outside the airplane, and the only damage to the airplane was a flat tire.

A single engine plane landed on the southbound side of the 5 freeway this afternoon near McBean Parkway. The emergency landing was the result of engine problems. There were no injuries reported, and the landing caused no traffic collisions. Thankfully, traffic was slow on the 5 Freeway at the time of landing.

Caltrans will close the following lanes and ramps of the northbound and southbound Golden State Freeway (I-5) from Vista Del Lago (about two miles north of Castaic) to Frazier Park, as part of a one-year, 40-mile project to repair lanes on I-5 damaged from this year’s heavy rainstorms: