Steve6443 wrote:
The question is, do you know what’s past that bridge and sign?
If you don’t – you should not take off in the first place! It’s not forced landing, but a voluntary takeoff!
It should go w/o saying, that before taking off from the road, you walk the entire takeoff run to check if there is obstacles, road damages, etc….
The risk of accelerating under the bridge is that there might be wind shear, etc. that pushes you to one side of the road. Why would you go for that risk, if after that you have miles of free and straight highway?
So as he stayed in the left lane (and per the road sign), I take it that he was taking Interstate 40 East to Ashville.
MedEwok wrote:
In Germany you are generally allowed to depart from the same field/area where you made an emergency landing
That is not completely true though. You can take off after a precautionary / safety landing. After an emergency landing, you need the approval of the local aviation authority. Obtaining that is possible, although all emergency landings I was part of (either on board, on the chase plane or as retrieval team) has left the aircraft non-flyable. So road transport was the easiest option anyway.