{"id":100684,"date":"2025-12-19T05:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/100684\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T05:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:14:13","slug":"would-be-plane-thief-crashes-into-socal-airport-hangar-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/100684\/","title":{"rendered":"Would-be plane thief crashes into SoCal airport hangar, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Authorities say a would-be aircraft thief saw his plans end abruptly after he slammed a stolen plane into a hangar at a Southern California airport.<\/p>\n

Ceffareno Michael Logan, 37, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of trying to steal a Cessna 172, a small aircraft, which was being used to train flight students at Van Nuys Airport. According to the Los Angeles Airport Police, Logan entered the grounds of the L.A. Flying Academy<\/a> along Balboa Boulevard around 5 a.m.<\/p>\n

He was able to access the plane, turn it on and attempt an escape, authorities said. It was not immediately clear whether Logan was a flight student at the academy.<\/p>\n

Before the craft could take off, Logan allegedly slammed the plane head-on into a hangar wall. The owner of the flight school told ABC7<\/a> that the aircraft\u2019s nose and wing were damaged in the incident.<\/p>\n

It was unclear Thursday evening whether anyone had been hurt in the incident.<\/p>\n

Logan was taken to the Van Nuys Jail around 10:30 a.m. and booked on suspicion of felony burglary, officials said. His bail is set at $150,000, according to booking records. <\/p>\n

The FBI\u2019s Los Angeles office confirmed to The Times that agents helped airport police with the investigation. <\/p>\n

The plane that was crashed was being used to train those trying to obtain a commercial or private pilot\u2019s license, according to the flight school.<\/p>\n

The flight academy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities say a would-be aircraft thief saw his plans end abruptly after he slammed a stolen plane into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[54871,11122,4700,6577,54869,54870,54868,4456,54872,48,52,51,43493,47,50,49,63,13197,236,15265,24923],"class_list":["post-100684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-a-m-thursday","tag-academy","tag-airport","tag-authority","tag-flight-school","tag-flight-student","tag-hangar","tag-incident","tag-l-a-flying-academy","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-logan","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-plane","tag-police","tag-small-aircraft","tag-van-nuys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}