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    Pilot sustains minor injuries after small plane crashes into Long Beach Airport building
    • July 11, 2023

    No commercial flights were affected Monday after a small plane crashed into the roof of a hangar building at the Long Beach Airport.

    This image taken from video and provided by KABC-7 TV shows a single-engine plane crashed nose-first into the roof of a hangar at Long Beach Airport in Southern California on Monday, July 10, 2023. Authorities say the pilot escaped with only minor injuries. The Federal Aviation Administration said the crash happened while the pilot of the Cessna 172 was practicing landings and takeoffs. (KABC-7 via AP)

    A small plane crashed into the roof of a hangar building at the Long Beach Airport, in Long Beach on Monday, July 10, 2023. Firefighters responded to multiple reports of the plane crash around 2:18 p.m. on the 2900 block of East Spring Street. The pilot was hospitalized with minor injuries and no other occupants were on the plane, said Long Beach Fire Capt. Jake Heflin.
    (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

    A small plane crashed into the roof of a hangar building at the Long Beach Airport, in Long Beach on Monday, July 10, 2023. Firefighters responded to multiple reports of the plane crash around 2:18 p.m. on the 2900 block of East Spring Street. The pilot was hospitalized with minor injuries and no other occupants were on the plane, said Long Beach Fire Capt. Jake Heflin.
    (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

    A small plane crashed into the roof of a hangar building at the Long Beach Airport, in Long Beach on Monday, July 10, 2023. Firefighters responded to multiple reports of the plane crash around 2:18 p.m. on the 2900 block of East Spring Street. The pilot was hospitalized with minor injuries and no other occupants were on the plane, said Long Beach Fire Capt. Jake Heflin.
    (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

    A small plane crashed into the roof of a hangar building at the Long Beach Airport, in Long Beach on Monday, July 10, 2023. Firefighters responded to multiple reports of the plane crash around 2:18 p.m. on the 2900 block of East Spring Street. The pilot was hospitalized with minor injuries and no other occupants were on the plane, said Long Beach Fire Capt. Jake Heflin.
    (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

    A small plane crashed into the roof of a hangar building at the Long Beach Airport, in Long Beach on Monday, July 10, 2023. Firefighters responded to multiple reports of the plane crash around 2:18 p.m. on the 2900 block of East Spring Street. The pilot was hospitalized with minor injuries and no other occupants were on the plane, said Long Beach Fire Capt. Jake Heflin.
    (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

    A small plane crashed into the roof of a hangar building at the Long Beach Airport, in Long Beach on Monday, July 10, 2023. Firefighters responded to multiple reports of the plane crash around 2:18 p.m. on the 2900 block of East Spring Street. The pilot was hospitalized with minor injuries and no other occupants were on the plane, said Long Beach Fire Capt. Jake Heflin.
    (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

    A small plane crashed into the roof of a hangar building at the Long Beach Airport, in Long Beach on Monday, July 10, 2023. Firefighters assisted the pilot, the plane’s single occupant, in getting off the roof.
    (Photo courtesy of Abel Bratton / The MODERN & The MODERN kitchen + bar)

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    Firefighters responded to multiple reports of the plane crash around 2:30 p.m. on the 2900 block of East Spring Street. The plane, identified as a single-engine Cessna 172, had crashed while the pilot was practicing landings and takeoffs, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.

    The pilot, a man in his 40s, was hospitalized with minor injuries, and no other occupants were on board, said Long Beach Fire Capt. Jake Heflin.

    There was no active fire, but first responders also dealt with approximately 45 gallons of leaked fuel, which had begun making its way into the building, said Heflin.

     

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