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Light plane crash lands on Quebec highway

WATCH: Raw video of aftermath of light plane crash on Quebec highway

MONTREAL – A light plane crash landed on a Quebec highway near Terrebonne, an off-island suburb north-east of Montreal on Friday.

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Quebec provincial police said that the pilot, who walked away without a scratch, was lucky to be alive.

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“The pilot landed on part of the highway,” Sûreté du Québec spokesperson Gregory Gomez told Global News.

A light plane crash landed on a Quebec highway near Terrebonne, Que. on August 8, 2014. Marc-Alain Trudeau/Global News

According to authorities, the Cessna plane left the Mascouche airport at around 10 a.m.

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The pilot quickly realized that there were engine problems and reacted fast, landing on the westbound side of Highway 640 near Chemin des Anglais.

A section of the highway was temporarily closed in order to remove the plane.

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