{"id":414462,"date":"2026-07-27T22:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/414462\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:54:08","slug":"small-plane-lands-on-beach-in-huntington-beach-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/414462\/","title":{"rendered":"Small plane lands on beach in Huntington Beach \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small plane with an engine issue made an emergency landing Monday afternoon on the sand at Huntington State Beach in Huntington Beach.<\/p>\n<p>The Piper PA-28 with two people on board landed safely at about 2 p.m. just south of Magnolia Street in the seaside Orange County community. There were no reports of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot reported an engine problem after departure from John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana. <\/p>\n<p>The plane is registered to the <a href=\"https:\/\/elderabuseairforce.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elder Abuse Air Force<\/a>, a charity organization based at John Wayne Airport that works to protect seniors from financial fraud and physical abuse. Pilot Mike Bremner said they were flying to a meeting in Van Nuys when the engine failed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At that point we ran a very quick check to try to get the engine going again,&#8221; Bremner said. &#8220;Given that we were out about 1,000 feet, we had to determine very quickly where to land. We chose the chose the beach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 121-acre state beach has volleyball and basketball courts and a multi-use trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small plane with an engine issue made an emergency landing Monday afternoon on the sand at Huntington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[588,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-414462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-huntington-beach","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414462","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=414462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}