Train slams into downed plane in Pacoima after pilot is pulled from wreckage

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Bystanders pulled a pilot out of the wreckage of a plane that crash landed near Whiteman Airport in Pacoima moments before a train slammed into it Sunday, Jan. 9. (Photo by Nikolas Lucky, OC Hawk)


Bystanders pulled a pilot out of a Cessna 172 that went down on a set of train tracks near Whiteman Airport in Pacoima on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 9, before a train came along several minutes later and slammed into the immobilized aircraft.

The small plane crash-landed on the tracks adjacent to the airport, near the intersection of Osborne Street and San Fernando Road, Los Angeles Fire Department officials said. The heavily damaged plane was partially in the path of a passing Metrolink locomotive that collided at full speed with the aircraft’s rear end.

“He’s out of there, they got him out!” people were heard shouting in footage recorded at the scene by a news videographer with OC Hawk just moments after the train smashed the tail of the plane.

The pilot was the sole occupant of the plane, Los Angeles Fire Department officials said. That person was freed from the wreck about 20 minutes before the train barreled into it, said Rocio Duran, a bystander at the scene.

Read more: https://www.dailynews.com/2022/01/09/plane-goes-down-near-whiteman-airport-in-pacoima-pilot-pulled-from-wreckage-by-bystanders/

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