There were confused faces greeting Carmacks RCMP officers Tuesday as they diverted vehicle traffic around a two-seater airplane that had landed on the road.

'There were just a few strange looks as they drove past,' Const. Don McPhee of the Carmacks detachment said today.

At about 3:05 Tuesday afternoon, police received word the plane had landed on the highway.

There, officers learned the Dawson City-area pilot had run into some ice fog and had to make the emergency landing with the light 1978 Bellanca plane, about 10 kilometres south of Carmacks.

There was no one on the road at the time and the pilot has the experience to make the landing, McPhee said. The pilot was the only occupant of the aircraft.

A search on the Transport Canada website notes that the airplane is registered to a William Schmidt from Dawson City.

Traffic was rerouted to a single lane around the plane until the weather was clear enough for the pilot to take off safely and land at the Carmacks airport at around 4 p.m. The pilot remained in the village overnight.

He had been on his way from Dawson to Whitehorse to get the plane serviced.