Video: Plane Hits Car In Texas

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That airport has a 400' long displaced threshold, and that road looks to be about 50' from the start of the pavement. Given a "normal" glidepath, that means the pilot should have been 15' in the air crossing the road, if he intended to land on brick one. Since an SUV is only about 6' tall, that's a problem. He was intending to land where he shouldn't. Further, this airport actually has restrictions published that require a somewhat steeper descent than normal; he should have been higher. That being said, there's no excuse for the SUV ignoring the stop sign and driving into harm's way, but the pilot, familiar with that airport as he was, should have also been looking at the road to insure his own safety. Yes, he was a student pilot, but he should have been taught a little more situational awareness and risk assessment to understand likely scenarios - especially he should have been looking after the first car drove across his flight path!

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