Officers rescue pilot seconds before train hits crashed airplane on railroad tracks
Source: USA Today
Officers in California saved a pilot who crashed onto railroad tracks seconds before a train smashed the wreckage into pieces.
On Sunday, a Cessna 172 made an emergency landing around 2 p.m. PT shorty after takeoff from Whiteman Airport in Pacoima, according to the Associated Press.
Two officers from the Los Angeles Police Department can be seen on body camera footage pulling the bloodied pilot to safety moments before the train collided with the aircraft.
"Go, go go!" one of the officers shouted while running away.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/10/plane-hit-by-train-california/9155052002/
A scene you usually only see in a movie. Just amazing they got him out.
(the pilot is a little bloody if that sight bothers anyone)
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)3auld6phart
(1,055 posts)That was a near run thing. The officers should gat recognition for
that rescue. Any body hurt?
ColinC
(8,346 posts)Very impressive.
wryter2000
(46,122 posts)Those officers are heroes.
Marthe48
(17,079 posts)He has been a pilot for 20 years, flies for a commercial airline, but just bought a Cessna, mainly to get back and forth to his hub. I don't think I'll show him the video.
Bayard
(22,196 posts)Shades of, "The Fugitive."
oldsoftie
(12,647 posts)Karadeniz
(22,600 posts)brooklynite
(94,859 posts)malthaussen
(17,219 posts)Still, any landing you walk away from...
-- Mal