Dramatic! If The Police Didn't Have Time To Evacuate, This Cessna Pilot Would Have Died By A Train

Screen capture via Twitter

JAKARTA - A Cessna plane failed to take off. Unfortunately, the plane crashed on the train track. The pilot is locked in the plane. What happened?

Police in Los Angeles, California, managed to pull a pilot from the Cessna plane that crashed seconds before it was hit by a train on Sunday, January 9. When the tiny plane was hit by a high-speed train, debris flew in all directions.

Dramatic video obtained by Reuters shows officers freeing the man from the downed plane, which crashed shortly after takeoff in the Pacoima neighborhood, according to local media.

Officers and pilots were just meters from the tracks when a passing train destroyed the plane.

"The plane failed to take off and landed on the railroad tracks at a popular intersection," said Luis Jimenez, the 21-year-old music composer who shot the video.

"Just seconds before the impact, police officers rescued the pilot and a piece of debris nearly hit me."

The pilot was treated for cuts and bruises and is in stable condition, according to local media.

Foothill Division Officers displayed heroism and quick action by saving the life of a pilot who made an emergency landing on the railroad tracks at San Fernando Rd. and Osborne St., just before an oncoming train collided with the aircraft. pic.twitter.com/DDxtGGIIMo

— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) January 10, 2022

No one on the train was injured, local media reported.

Video footage posted on Twitter by the Los Angeles Police Department shows bodycam footage of officers pulling the bleeding pilot from the plane.

The department praised its officers, saying in a tweet that they had "shown heroism and swift action by saving the life of a pilot who made an emergency landing on a railroad track".