I love cars, and my eyes stay glued to screens for about 14 hours of the day. That means the algorithm loves to feed me car-based videos. Because of that, I watch dozens of dashcam clips—where a camera is mounted to the inside of a windshield, usually pointed outward—every single day.
As such, I’ve seen some pretty ridiculous videos. Car crashes, amazing saves, weird moments—type any of these phrases into YouTube with the words “dashcam compilation” attached, and you’ll be given endless hours of content to comb through. This video from the built-in camera of a Tesla easily takes the cake for the craziest dashcam footage I’ve seen all year.
The video, published to TikTok yesterday by user mtopchian1, starts innocently enough. It shows the camera traveling northbound on S Sooner Road, on the southeastern outskirts of Oklahoma City. Then, right as the car reaches a cross street of SE 119th Street, a single-engine aircraft appears from the left, no more than 10 feet off the ground. The plane crosses onto the roadway, angled towards the camera car, where it appears to touch down as the car swerves to avoid striking the right wing tip, seemingly by inches.
@mtopchian1 That plane looks a bit low to me #plane #crash #planecrash #nationalguard #okc ♬ Sybau – KCK Mixes
The plane in question is an OA-1K Skyradier II, a light attack aircraft put into service by the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command earlier this year. The plane took off from Will Rogers International Airport in Oklahoma, where it and the crew were based, before the incident occurred.
Photos published to social media suggest the plane left the roadway shortly after that dashcam video was filmed, and struck powerlines before coming to a rest in a nearby field. The plane looked surprisingly intact, considering where it ended up.
An Oklahoma National Guard plane has crashed in a field near S.E. 119th and Sooner Road. No word yet on how many people were on board, and if there were any injuries. Police say Tinker Air Force Base personnel are at the scene. The plane appears to be single-engine. @NEWS9 pic.twitter.com/o7GZCPdg5U
— Matt McCabe (@MattLMcCabe) October 23, 2025
In a statement published to X, the Oklahoma National Guard said the plane’s two occupants, a civilian contractor and an active-duty U.S. Air Force service member, were not injured in the crash. The Guard says the plane was conducting a training mission at the time of the incident, and that a cause for the crash is under investigation. The most obvious possible cause is engine failure, which would’ve forced the pilot to make an unscheduled landing—that’s just speculation at this point, however.
If you, like me, are thinking the Skyraider II doesn’t exactly look like your average military aircraft, you’d be right. The plane is actually based on the appropriately named Air Tractor AT-802, an aircraft introduced in 1990 and originally designed for crop-dusting. The Skyraider version is built in conjunction with military defense contractor L3Harris, and is meant for “low-intensity missions, such as counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations,” according to The War Zone.
Oh boy! Latest reports were that everyone is ok! ???? pic.twitter.com/NwI4X2yXen
— Thenewarea51 (@thenewarea51) October 23, 2025
Though there’s no telling how or why the Skyraider II managed to hold up so well in the crash, The War Zone speculates its blue-collar origins might’ve had something to do with it:
It’s quite possible the aircraft’s crop-duster roots helped keep the airframe and its crew intact when it came down in the field, as it’s built to operate from rough fields even in its suped-up military configuration.
Take this incident as a lesson to always keep one eye in the sky. You never know when a military-grade aircraft is going to cut you off because they didn’t look both ways.
Top graphic images: public domain; Yonvim via Amazon
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