MURPHY, Idaho -- No one was hurt when the pilot of a small aircraft was able to guide it to an emergency touchdown on an Owyhee County highway.
The plane landed on Highway 78 near Murphy just after 10 a.m. Friday. It's not clear whether the plane was having mechanical trouble or whether something else went wrong.
The highway runs parallel to the runway for the Murphy Airport.
Dispatchers called the crash "very minor." Three men were able to lift the aircraft and move it out of the roadway.
Information about where the plane had taken off and where it was going were not immediately available.
