One Killed When Plane Slams Into Hillside in LA Neighborhood
LOS ANGELES—One person was killed when a single-engine plane slammed into a grassy hillside above homes in a Los Angeles neighborhood amid dense fog, authorities said.
The Cessna C172 crashed around 8:45 p.m. Saturday on the city’s west side, about 8 miles southeast of Van Nuys Airport, the Los Angeles Fire Department and Federal Aviation Administration said.
Joubin Solemani was at home with his family in the upscale Beverly Crest area when they all heard a loud crash.
“We thought it might be a car crash. But we looked outside and didn’t see anything. We didn’t know what the heck it was,” Solemani said Sunday. “Then search-and-rescue showed up and were all over the hillside.”…