Small airplane has engine failure; pilot lands in Valencia watermelon subject – NBC Los Angeles
The pilot of a small airplane and her two passengers have been unhurt after the airplane’s engine failed Sunday and he or she made a bumpy emergency touchdown right into a watermelon subject close to Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia.
The crash was reported simply after 5 p.m. Sunday at Henry Mayo Drive and The Outdated Street, in response to the California Freeway Patrol.
Pilot Anastasia Vournas instructed a videographer on the scene that her engine sputtered and stopped after she left the Santa Paula Airport, in Ventura County.
Vournas mentioned she couldn’t return to the airport over mountains, hills and freeways, however that the watermelon patch offered a superb different.
It was “somewhat bumpy on the watermelons, however I did what I used to be skilled,” she mentioned.
Pilots all the time have to concentrate on their environment, she mentioned. “I all the time must suppose that if I lose my engine, the place am I going to place this down.”
