"I saw an opening on the highway and I went for it right away," said the pilot, identified by KNBC-TV Channel 4 as Izzy Slod. "I had to make a last-minute, last-second judgment on whether or not we could make it over, and we didn't have the airspeed to make it over, so I went under it."

Source: Los Angeles Times January 29, 2018 04:43 UTC