Niko Bray, who obtained pilot’s license in January 2025, shares story after averting disaster on busy Jupiter road
A teenage pilot who made an emergency airplane landing on a busy Florida road while averting disaster entirely says “you just execute” when thrust into such life-or-death situations.
“It can happen … so fast,” 19-year-old Niko Bray said in an interview with the Florida news outlet WSVN, nearly a week after authorities say he landed the small airplane he was flying on a six-lane thoroughfare in the community of Jupiter because of an emergency in the skies.
Bray obtained his pilot’s license in January 2025, works as a flight instructor and was flying a Cessna 150G above Jupiter on the afternoon of 6 March when he detected that his plane had an engine problem, the Palm Beach Post reported.
In the WSVN interview, the suburban Palm Beach Gardens resident said his plane had lost power, and he grasped that his best shot at making it out of his plight alive was to try to land on Indiantown Road below.
