It was attempting to circle back to the city's regional airport after a failed landing attempt.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The plane's pilot radioed for help after experiencing problems with the technical equipment, WNDU reported, adding that a landing attempt failed.

CNN: 2 killed in Indiana plane crash

Unsettled weather at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida prompted NASA to call off today's planned landing, and the shuttle's orbit will not allow another landing attempt in Florida until tomorrow morning.

NPR: Shuttle Landing Delayed Due to Poor Weather

This means that astronauts might be forced to attempt a landing on Mars even if their spacecraft became crippled in an accident on the way to Mars.

BBC: Manned flight to Mars in 2014?

The latest, relatively lame, thinking is that NASA should use whatever new technology is funded to attempt a manned landing on an asteroid.

FORBES: Saving NASA From The Obama Science Fair

The only actual historical citation of an attempt I could find for a large plane landing on a U.S. Highway was Southern Airways Flight 242, a DC-9, in 1977.

FORBES: Could You Land A Large Plane On An Interstate Highway?

Then during a half-hour, instructor-led session, you decide which weather conditions are the most optimal to fly through on a route between Heathrow airport and Dubai, and attempt a takeoff, a brief cruise and a landing.

BBC: Think you can fly a jumbo jet?

Bezos has been funneling money into Blue Origin for years in an attempt to build a successful vertical take-off, vertical landing rocket.

FORBES: Jeff Bezos' Spacecraft Blows Up In Secret Test Flight; Locals Describe 'Challenger-Like' Explosion