AIR Emergency

Flying instructor Steve Clarehugh at Eshott airfield, Thursday March 9, 2006, with his 4x4 car and a light aircraft he helped guide to the airfield in Felton near Alnwick Northumberland. The flying instructor saved the stricken plane by using the headlights of his 4x4 to guide it to safety. Clarehugh used the powerful headlamps of his Isuzu Trooper to help the Cessna land on the unlit airfield. The Cessna 182, en route from Dundee to an airfield in Manchester, had suffered engine failure at 5,500 feet and needed to land immediately. Mr Clarehugh used his 4x4's headlights and indicators to guide the plane with two men on board to safety. His makeshift illuminations allowed the single-engine aircraft to land, but it bounced off the runway and collided with a barbed wire fence before coming to rest safely back on the landing strip. The Cessna's pilots escaped physically unhurt but both suffered shock. See PA story AIR Emergency. PRESS ASSOCIATION photo. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA. (Photo by Owen Humphreys - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)