.... making us all look bad, and giving the politicians ammunition:


http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Southwest...dui/index.html



Plane clips van in emergency freeway landing

No one injured; pilot charged with flying while intoxicated

Saturday, July 10, 2004 Posted: 9:31 PM EDT (0131 GMT)


(CNN) -- An Arizona man was charged with flying a plane while
intoxicated Saturday after he was forced to land his plane on northbound
Interstate 5 near Santa Clarita, clipping a van in the process.

Neither the pilot, 53-year-old Marc South, nor the occupants of the van
were injured, California Highway Patrol Officer Brian Joy said.

South, of Eloy, Arizona, was en route to Sacramento.

He was taken to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia for
observation, before being booked at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's
Station.

South told officers an engine quit on his single-engine plane about
noon, and he began searching for a place to land. As he brought the
plane down on the highway near the town of Castaic, he hit the van,
causing him to lose control, Joy said.

A wing struck the ground, and the plane overturned onto the right-hand
shoulder of the freeway.

Officers said South failed a sobriety test at the scene of the accident.