MOMENT: Downed plane hit by train in Los Angeles just as pilot freed from wreckage
Dramatic video shows a downed plane being hit by a train on Sunday at a Los Angeles level crossing.
The passenger train slammed into a downed Cessna that crashed shortly after takeoff, local media reported, just seconds after police freed the bleeding pilot.
Video obtained by Reuters showed the train ramming in full force, sending airplane debris flying across a fence and nearly hitting bystanders.
"The plane had a failed takeoff and landed on the train tracks at a popular intersection," Luis Jimenez, the 21-year-old music composer who filmed the video, said. "Immediately just seconds before impact police officers saved the pilot, and a piece of debris almost hit me."
No one on board the train was injured, local media reported.
(Source: Reuters)
Iran bids farewell to 300 unidentified martyrs of Iraqi-imposed war
Magnitude 5.6 earthquake rocks Iran's Khuzestan Province
Ex-US Army officer and Press TV analyst Scott Bennett dies at 53
Eight Palestinians killed as Israel attacks Gaza school, hospitals
VIDEO | Rome, Milan host new protests in solidarity with Palestinians
Dec. 21: ‘Axis of Resistance’ operations against Israeli occupation
Spain jurists demand ties with Israel ties be cut
VIDEO | Press TV's news headlines
VIDEO | Iran honors top Science Olympiad medalists
VIDEO | Austrians arrested at Gaza protest in Vienna
10 killed in bus crash in western Iran
PressTV NEWSLETTER
now
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
