LOS ANGELES: The small aircraft pilot turned the death twice in the upwards of the minute on Sunday, first when he crashed into the railroad, then when the police Los Angeles saved him right before the commuter train crashed into the plane.
The bodycam video shows the officer who works angrily to parse the bloody pilot from the cessna 172 cockpit which is tangled.
“Go! Go! Go! Go! Someone shouted when the officers dragged the man went a few seconds before the train metrolink, his horn blared, barreled on the plane.
The single machine plane has a machine failure during the airport whiteman in the Valley Community San Fernando Pacoya and dropped a few moments later, the captain’s police.
Christopher Zine told reporters.
The plane ended with a crossroads at the intersection adjacent to the airport and only a block from the Los Angeles Police Division Station.
Officers arrived at the accident scene immediately.
“I am Have asked Metrolink to stop all train activities, but it seems that it doesn’t happen, “Sgt.
Joseph Cavestany told CBSN Los Angeles.
The officer Christopher Aboyte told Kabc-TV that he initially stood near the plane trying to keep the pilot, who was sitting, conscious and alert.
Then, the bells and flashing lights indicate the train that men Close, officer Robert Sherock told the station.
“We saw and pretty sure there was a train to get right for us at full speed,” he said.
Officer Damien Castro told KNBC-TV that the training and experience were kicked, and adrenaline helped.
“When things like that happen, you just go and do it,” Castro said.
“You don’t have much time to think.” The bodycam captures the scenery and sound of the blasting of the train where the pilot has a few seconds before.
“I think this person needs to buy lottery tickets’ because he is quite cheating twice in 10 minutes,” said Sherock KNBC.
The pilot is the only person on the boat.
He was taken to the hospital.
He was identified as a 70-year-old Mark Jenkins by a relative, and Mortensen, who told the KNBC-TV that the pilot suffered the damage “quite significant” on his face including a broken rib and also broken ribs.
Jenkins is a former US air force fighter pilot “very experienced”, said Mortensen, who jointly owned a plane.
Mortensen said Jenkins might intend to land on the track to avoid the possibility of beating people on the ground.
“He did not anticipate the train that came at 80 mph,” Mortensen said.
Metrolink services are stopped and road traffic canceled in the area of about 20 miles (32 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles City.
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate.
The pilot was saved from debris in La Moment before the hit train
