Plane carrying banner lands on northwest Fresno street, no injuries reported

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A level carrying an advertizing banner had to marque an exigency landing connected a northwest Fresno street.

Police accidental they received aggregate reports astir 2:20 p.m. Saturday of a level successful the mediate of a roadworthy connected Emerson and Lead Avenues adjacent Marks.

Officers accidental they recovered the aviator shaken up but physically good soon aft arriving astatine the scene.

Investigators accidental the aviator started astatine Sierra Sky Park and spent astir of the time flying an advertizing banner supra the metropolis of Clovis. He was heading backmost to Sierra Sky Park erstwhile his motor mislaid powerfulness astatine astir 1,200 ft successful altitude.

To marque the landing, the aviator had to navigate astir aggregate alloy inferior powerfulness poles. No structures were damaged, and nary 1 was injured.

It's chartless wherever the advertizing banner went arsenic it was not attached to the level erstwhile Action News crews arrived connected scene.

Fresno Police person notified the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) and accidental they volition beryllium taking implicit the investigation.