Global Courant 2023-04-30 23:35:17
Los Angeles firefighters have found one dead after locating a small plane that went missing over a foggy part of the city and crashed Saturday night, authorities said.
The single-engine plane was found at about 11:20 p.m. on a steep slope above a home in Beverly Glen Circle in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
One victim was found at the scene. The pilot was not immediately identified and it was assumed no one else was on the plane.
An air traffic controller initially reported the plane missing earlier Saturday evening after losing radar contact with the plane, the fire service said.
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The small plane was located on a hill behind a house near Beverly Glen Boulevard in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Google Street View)
The small plane is said to have traveled between Santa Monica Airport and Van Nuys Airport.
Helicopters and ground crews from the fire department searched for nearly an hour before a helicopter found a signal from a radio beacon from an aircraft emergency position near Beverly Glen Terrace and Beverly Glen Boulevard.
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Ground crews then conducted a grid survey of the Beverley Crest area around Mulholland Drive, which was “shrouded in dense fog at ground level,” the department said.
The Los Angeles Fire Department searched the ground and air for nearly an hour for the missing plane before locating the small plane on a hill behind a house. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)
The cause of the crash remained under investigation. Further details were not immediately available.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
