Police in Los Angeles, California, removed the pilot of a Cessna plane that crash-landed seconds before the aircraft was hit by a train, on Sunday (9).
A dramatic video taken by Reuters shows several police officers releasing the man from the plane, who had fallen shortly after take-off in the Pacoima neighborhood, according to local media. Officers and pilot are a few meters from the tracks when a passing train wrecks the plane, hurling debris in all directions.
“The plane had failed to take off and landed on the train tracks at a popular intersection,” said Luis Jimenez, the 21-year-old musician who filmed the video. “A few seconds before impact, the police rescued the pilot and a piece of debris nearly hit me.”
The pilot has received medical treatment for cuts and bruises and is in stable condition, according to local media. No one on the train was injured, local media reported.
A video posted on Twitter by the Los Angeles Police Department showed footage from a body camera of one of the officers who pulled the bleeding pilot out of the plane.
The Department applauded its officers, saying in the tweet that they “displayed heroism and swift action in saving the life of a pilot who made an emergency landing on the railroad tracks.”
Reference: CNN Brasil
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