{"id":277595,"date":"2026-04-20T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277595\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T23:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:22:07","slug":"small-plane-crashes-in-parking-lot-of-los-angeles-auto-store-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277595\/","title":{"rendered":"Small plane crashes in parking lot of Los Angeles auto store | National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 The pilot of a small plane was injured Monday after crashing his aircraft in the parking lot of an auto parts store in Southern California, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was reported shortly after 11 a.m. by an O&#8217;Reilly Auto Parts store in the neighborhood of Pacoima in north Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot, a 70-year-old man, was rescued from the plane and taken to a local hospital where he is in critical condition, the LAFD said. Officials confirmed he was the only person on the plane, and no other injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>Photos from local news outlets show a plane upside down in a parking lot, just a few feet away from parked cars. The nose of the plane appears to be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the plane clipped some high voltage lines in the immediate area, and police were evacuating local businesses and residences for safety.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 The pilot of a small plane was injured Monday after crashing his aircraft in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4846,7125,18,48,52,51,47,50,49,14819,119844,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-277595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-accidents","9":"tag-automotive-accidents","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-headlines","13":"tag-la-news","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","16":"tag-los-angeles-news","17":"tag-plane-crashes","18":"tag-small-plane-crash-los-angeles-pacoima","19":"tag-u-s-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277595","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=277595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}