A plane made an emergency landing on a California freeway, leading to the arrest of two men after drugs were found onboard.

MESA, AZ (AZFamily) — Two California residents have been arrested after cocaine was found when their small aircraft made an emergency landing on a freeway after taking off from Falcon Field Airport in Mesa.

Two people were arrested after a plane carrying a “large” amount of drugs made an emergency landing on a highway, California police say. The plane landed on State Route 76 shortly before 2 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, the Oceanside Police Department said in a news release.

A plane carrying narcotics that took off from Falcon Field in Mesa made an emergency landing on a freeway in Oceanside, Calif. The two pilots have been arrested.

The Piper Cherokee emergency landing was executed perfectly on State Route 76 by 21-year-old Gabriel Breit at 1:40 a.m. but his passenger did not share the pilot’s nerves of steel.

From a brush fire in the Gila River Indian Community that could be seen for miles in the Valley to an airplane that took off from Mesa and landed on a freeway in Oceanside, Calif. with pilots who were found with cocaine,

Two pilots were found with cocaine on a plane that took off from Falcon Field in Mesa and landed on a freeway in California.

A small plane made an emergency landing on a southern California highway — and the instructor pilot and his student passenger were arrested for smuggling drugs, according to police. The pilot, 21-year-old Gabriel Leon Breit,