An amateur pilot has said he is considering giving up flying after surviving his second air crash in only five years.

Danny Hall was forced to make an emergency landing at the weekend after his light aircraft began to experience engine problems.

As the Skyline Cessna lost power he asked an air traffic controller to tell his wife and children that he loved them as he searched desperately for a safe landing area.

The 48-year-old roofing company owner from Torrington, Connecticut, said he was saved when he spotted an empty stretch of tarmac near Brainard airport in Hartford.

“What I thought was a road was actually the bus route I guess they just built,” he said.

“I was kind of questioning why there were no