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A slightly more recent (and famous) highway landing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

Not in the US but in Canada, and technically not an highway but a racetrack.

It says in the first paragraph of your link that it was an Air Force base. There's no "highway" to it, technically or otherwise: they landed at an airport.

> a former Royal Canadian Air Force base in Gimli, Manitoba, which had been converted to a racetrack

Technically.

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