A small passenger airplane made an emergency landing Saturday afternoon on Interstate 76, according to State Patrol.
At 2:25 p.m., the airplane was flying over northeastern Colorado when it experienced a malfunction and made an emergency landing on westbound I-76, the State Patrol said in a statement Saturday on social media.
Troopers said the plane landed about 9 miles east of Brush on the interstate.
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The emergency landing caused some traffic delays, but no one was injured in the plane or on the interstate, state troopers said.
Crews towed the airplane 9 miles west to I-76’s exit 92 interchange near Brush, where it was loaded onto a trailer and hauled to the Fort Morgan airport, the State Patrol said. Fort Morgan is about 10 miles west of Brush.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
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