A small plane flown by what authorities called an elderly male pilot made an emergency landing at a park in Long Beach Tuesday, striking a female pedestrian who sustained non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
Long Beach Fire Department paramedics were dispatched around 4 p.m. to Heartwell Park regarding a down aircraft, LBFD Fire Capt. Jack Crabtree told City News Service.<\/p>\n
Fire crews discovered that the small aircraft had landed on its belly due to disabled landing gear, noting that the fuselage remained intact.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the plane landed, it collided with a pedestrian in the park,\u201d Crabtree said.<\/p>\n
He added that fire crews assisted with removing the pilot from the aircraft and took him to a hospital for treatment, where he was listed in stable condition. The extent of his injuries was not disclosed.<\/p>\n
The pedestrian was also taken to a hospital, where she was being treated for non-life-threatening injuries and was also listed in stable condition, but the extent of her injuries remains unknown.<\/p>\n
The Long Beach Police Department assisted with securing the scene as fire officials conducted rescue operations.<\/p>\n
The emergency landing remained under investigation as of Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small plane flown by what authorities called an elderly male pilot made an emergency landing at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7271,174,3978,11834,14881,131,133,132,984,5853],"class_list":{"0":"post-17402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-aircraft","9":"tag-beach","10":"tag-emergency","11":"tag-injured","12":"tag-landing","13":"tag-long-beach","14":"tag-long-beach-headlines","15":"tag-long-beach-news","16":"tag-pedestrian","17":"tag-pilot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17402","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=17402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}