A woman was walking her dog on Tuesday afternoon when an airplane crashed and struck her in Long Beach, California. The woman, Tiffany Harrison, suffered a broken pelvis and spine, as well as a deep gash in her leg that required two blood transfusions, according to her sister, Brittany McFall. “It’s almost like an unbelievable story. When we got the phone call that she got hit by an airplane, we couldn’t even believe it because it’s something that doesn’t happen‚” McFall told ABC7. McFall explained that her sister didn’t hear the plane approaching because Harrison is deaf. The aircraft that struck Harrison when she was walking on a soccer field appeared to be a home-built two-seater, and the pilot, a man in his sixties, is recovering from the accident. “The pilot is a member of our chapter at Compton airport. He’s been teaching safety classes for years, up until recently. He’s not an inexperienced pilot,” Dennis Lord, the hangar manager at Compton/Woodley Airport, where the airplane was expected to land, told ABC7. Harrison’s partner, Veronica Barrera, said she saw the plane coming toward Harrison and her dog from their van in the parking lot. “That plane hit her so fast,” Barrera told CBS LA. Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson released a statement saying the city is keeping the victims “in our thoughts and praying for their full recovery from this traumatic experience.”
