Just saw this!  Happened last Sunday morning.....if I was these guys I'd either had gone to church, or bought a lotto tickie!

Twas their LUCKY day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT58Di51wDk

It's a case of, Oh sh*t!  It quit!  COOL! Restart!  AHHH!, quit again!  Woot!  Restarted!  AHHHHHHH!!!  Hey there's a boulevard......and into a parking lot too!

Ain't this about the time of year that the New Yorkers head home with a Canadian under each arm?   Hence the lite traffic.

Sorry!  Couldn't resist......BUT IT IS!  I was a Tampa resident for quite awhile.....stayed a few years after I got out of the USAF.

The story that I saw is that it's a EAA project or a home-built that had just gotten airborne.

Plus, it's Winter Haven on a Sunday morn....all the seniors are in church.

The icing-on-the-cake moment truly was the parking lot pull-in!  AWESOME ending to a situation that had sooooo much worse potential!

That's was great flying and some tough decision making.  I hope if I were in the same situation I could do the same and end up the same, but I hope more to never be in that situation.