Small plane crash-lands on the 405 freeway near Irvine (location correction)

[haele]

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/california/Airplane-Crash-John-Wayne-Airport-405-Freeway-Orange-County-Santa-Ana-431794523.html

The two occupants were helped out by drivers on the freeway, and they're recovering in a local hospital.
Since it looks as if there will be a reasonably positive outcome after a nasty scare, in true retired Navy Chief fashion I'm posting the following short film - "405", representing the first thing that came to my mind after I found out the occupants, while injured, are alive and no one else on the freeway was injured...

Thanks to those who pointed out it was not in Tustin. I used to avoid the 405 side of the 405/5 split to get to Santa Ana/Long Beach, and if I needed to head near John Wayne Airport, I'd go through Tustin.

Haele

[MineralMan]

1. Cool video!

[rufus dog]

2. The location is actually Santa Ana/Irvine

The north side of the 405 is Irvine. Airport is Santa Ana.

Tustin doesn't border the 405 but it does border the 5 a bit north. Now is you took Red Hill north a few miles then you would hit Tustin.

[still_one]

3. The San Diego freeway is usually jammed. It is very lucky there were no fatalities

Little surprised they could not make it to LAX or Sannta Ana airport

[rufus dog]

4. they actually landed it on the freeway just above the airport in Santa Ana.

Freeway basically runs perpendicular to the airport. Little planes loop tightly just to the east and then land in between large aircraft. Strange thing is the landing on the freeway seems to be going the opposite way of a normal landing pattern.

Also this is the same location that Harrison Ford landed on the taxi way. It is a single runway airport, smack dab in the middle of a commercial area.

[still_one]

6. wow. Just glad no one got hurt

[rufus dog]

8. Unfortunately I think both pilot and passenger are hospitalized

Hopefully they will fully recover. They just needed another 100 yards to make the airport and at a minimum have nothing but flat land and runway.

[SoCalMusicLover]

5. Video Of Crash

http://abcnews.go.com/US/small-plane-crashes-california-freeway/story?id=48377385

[rufus dog]

7. Holy Shit!

Makes more sense now, he was trying to make the runway and ended up just a couple hundred yards short.