Photo: The Canadian Press

UPDATE: 1:05 p.m.

Jamal Hammoud woke up about 5:45 a.m. on Wednesday to get a drink of water when he saw the flashing lights of fire trucks outside his window.

At first, he thought there was trouble with the light-rail train that runs along the busy boulevard right by his northeast Calgary home. But when he went out to see what was going on, he was surprised to see a plane, intact aside from a damaged wing, parked on 36th Street N.E.

"It's something that you see in movies, not in real life," he said.

Police say the twin-engine plane was coming in from the south, heading for a landing at the Calgary airport, when a pilot radioed in that the aircraft was low on fuel.

Sgt. Duane Lepchuk said the aircraft came down on a two-lane stretch of road about five kilometres south of the airport and not far from the Trans-Canada Highway.

There were no injuries among the four passengers and two crew members on the Piper Navajo.

Lepchuk said there was minimal traffic on the street at the time and no reports of drivers having to swerve to miss the plane.

Hammoud said security footage from his home captured the plane passing right over a car.

By early afternoon, the plane was still there and the scene was abuzz with investigators and passersby snapping photos, he said.

Jason Hollyoak told CTV Calgary that he saw the plane make an incredible landing.

"I would say he was just trying to keep it underneath all the light poles and street lights and everything. He had to have flown over probably two or three cars," Hollyoak said.

Super T Aviation of Medicine Hat, Alta., said in a statement that the plane was forced to land "due to a loss of power of unknown cause."

– The Canadian Press

UPDATE: 6:50 a.m.

A small plane carrying six people made an emergency landing on a Calgary street Wednesday morning.

Police say the twin-engine plane was coming in from the south, heading for a landing at the Calgary airport, when the pilot radioed in that the aircraft was low on fuel.

Sgt. Duane Lepchuk said the plane came down shortly before 6:00 a.m. on a two-lane stretch of 36th Street, about five kilometres south of the airport and not far from the Trans-Canada Highway.

There were no injuries among the four passengers and two crew members.

Lepchuk said there was minimal traffic on the street at the time and no reports of drivers having to swerve to miss the plane.

"36 (Street) is an overpass that goes over the Trans-Canada," noted Lepchuk, who said there was no indication the plane was damaged during the landing.

- with files from CP

ORIGINAL: 6:34 a.m

More small plane issues forcing highway landings, this time in Calgary.

A private dual prop Piper Navajo, based out of Medicine Hat Alberta made an emergency landing in northeast Calgary after the dual prop plane experienced engine trouble.

The Piper Navajo was forced down in the northbound lane of  36 Street between 12 Avenue and 16 Avenue NE just before 6 a.m.

"Remarkably, there was no injuries of anyone aboard the aircraft," said EMS Public Education Officer Stuart Brideaux. "But also, no injuries to anyone on the ground or involving any other vehicular traffic on 36 Street. It is quite extraordinary."

Witnesses report seeing the plane fly beneath the traffic signals at the intersection of 36 Street and 12 Avenue NE, in fact, the wing made contact and damaged several signs.

- with files from CTV