Small airplane makes emergency landing on highway in Hungary

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A police officer and a maintenance worker walk toward a small aircraft after it made an emergency landing on a busy highway in the outskirts of Budapest, Hungary, Monday, May 30, 2016. An official from a local airport says the Cessna took off on a training flight with two people on board and was forced to land because of engine failure. No injuries were reported. (Zoltan Mihadak/MTI via AP)

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Hungarian police say a small airplane made an emergency landing on a busy highway on the outskirts of Budapest.

No injuries were reported in Monday’s incident and police were directing traffic at the scene on the M1-M7 highway, near several shopping malls.

An official from a local airport told state news agency MTI that the Cessna took off on a training flight with two people on board and was forced to land because of engine failure.

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